Everything, All the Time, Everywhere - How We Became Postmodern

But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today. He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes, amongst others: David Bowie * the Ipod * Frederic Jameson * the demolition of Pruit-Igoe * Madonna * Post-Fordism * Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit' * Deleuze and Guattari * the Nixon Shock * The Bowery series * Judith Butler * Las Vegas * Margaret Thatcher * Grand Master Flash * I Love Dick * the RAND Corporation * the Sex Pistols * Princess Diana * the Musee D'Orsay * Grand Theft Auto* Perry Anderson * Netflix * 9/11We are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us as consumers to whom they must deliver. Can we do anything else than suffer from buyer's remorse?

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Jeffries, Jeffries Stuart
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781788738231
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-823-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, ART / History / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Postmodernism, History of Art, Western philosophy from c 1800, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Art & Design Styles: Postmodernism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism