Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

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Re: Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

Post by Svartalf » Wed Jul 05, 2017 8:43 am

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Re: Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

Post by rainbow » Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:34 am

Brian Peacock wrote:If one examines material postdialectic theory, one is faced with a stark and prescient choice: either reject neocapitalist theory or conclude that culture is capable of progressive significance. In a sense, as Barthes suggests, the deployment of the cultural narrative is focused in an attack upon neocapitalist expressionism concerning the stasis, and some would say the absurdity, in which submodernist sexuality is all too often subsumed.
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Re: Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

Post by mistermack » Mon Jul 10, 2017 7:03 pm

It exists.

A bit like the mini skirt.

And about as important.

It's fashion.
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Re: Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

Post by Forty Two » Fri Jul 14, 2017 4:35 pm

rainbow wrote:Perhaps it does, but as a reference class problem, it might just be improbable.


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Re: Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

Post by Rum » Sat Dec 09, 2017 9:30 pm

My daughter is doing an MA in ceramics and has popped home this weekend to see me and friends. She has to write an essay on the impact of Post Modernism on ceramic art and craft for some time in January. She is understandably disdainful of the task but realises it is a hoop she has to jump through. She is no essay writer however and as I made my living out of (often) writing bullshit reports for the last few years of my career I am going to more or less write it for her.

I've done a bit of research already and it is a subject that is of course full of poo. Ideas however very welcome!

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Re: Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

Post by JimC » Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:21 pm

Well, the words "deconstructing" and "narrative" will get a fair work out, I imagine. And of course, one must mention Derrida, and adopt a tone of sneering contempt for anything rational... ;)

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Re: Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:22 am

Don't forget to throw in a good handful of post-s neo-s, and -isms too, as in, "The postcolonial critique of the pervasive neoliberal hegemony encapsulates idealisms of a distinctly objectivist outlook," etc etc...
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Post by JimC » Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:35 am

And you must insist that ceramics do not really exist, they are merely a social construction...
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Dec 10, 2017 1:21 am

Yes. First and foremost the jug exists only in the mind, waiting, incomparably, to be filled with the personal narratives of those whose grasp upon the handle of their own understanding is no firmer than the clay from which it was fashioned.

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Post by JimC » Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:31 am

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Re: Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

Post by Hermit » Sun Dec 10, 2017 3:30 am

From a ceramics exhibition in Adelaide in 2010:

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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Dec 10, 2017 4:23 am

I'm often quite impressed by how well artists can speak total and utter bullshit like they actually believe it. It's quite a skill.
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Re: Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

Post by JimC » Sun Dec 10, 2017 6:44 am

Actually, those descriptions of the artist's ceramics, although perhaps a little arch, made more sense that most post-modern drivel...
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Re: Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

Post by Rum » Sun Dec 10, 2017 8:47 am

Thanks guys - keep it up!

I have my work cut out. Googling a definition for post modernism comes up with multiple definitions . There's a theme there but there is no definitive..er..definition. I suppose that will make it easier to make it as as one goes along!

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Re: Does Post-Modernism Objectively Exist?

Post by JimC » Sun Dec 10, 2017 8:51 am

Rum wrote:Thanks guys - keep it up!

I have my work cut out. Googling a definition for post modernism comes up with multiple definitions . There's a theme there but there is no definitive..er..definition. I suppose that will make it easier to make it as as one goes along!
That's what the top practitioners do anyway!
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