"For more than a decade now a steadily growing chorus of voices has announced that the 'postmodern' literature, art, thought and culture of the late 20th century have come to an end. At the same time as this, the early years of the 21st century have seen a stream of critical formulations proclaiming a successor to postmodernism. Intriguing and exciting new terms such as 'remodernism', 'performatism',
'hypermodernism', 'automodernism", 'renewalism', 'altermodernism', 'digimodernism' and 'metamodernism' have been coined, proposed and debated as terms for what comes after the postmodern. Supplanting the Postmodern is the first anthology to collect the key writings in these debates in one place.The book is divided into two parts: the first, 'The Sense of an Ending', presents a range of positions in the debate around the demise of the postmodern; the second, 'Coming to Terms with the New', presents representative writings from the new '-isms' mentioned above. Each of the entries is prefaced by a brief introduction by the editors, in which they outline its central ideas, point out the similarities and/or differences from other positions found in the anthology, and suggest possible strengths and limitations to the insights presented in each piece"--"An anthology of key writings on the so-called demise of postmodernism and the debates around what might replace it"--
Read more... Abstract: "For more than a decade now a steadily growing chorus of voices has announced that the 'postmodern' literature, art, thought and culture of the late 20th century have come to an end. At the same time as this, the early years of the 21st century have seen a stream of critical formulations proclaiming a successor to postmodernism. Intriguing and exciting new terms such as 'remodernism', 'performatism', 'hypermodernism', 'automodernism", 'renewalism', 'altermodernism', 'digimodernism' and 'metamodernism' have been coined, proposed and debated as terms for what comes after the postmodern. Supplanting the Postmodern is the first anthology to collect the key writings in these debates in one place.The book is divided into two parts: the first, 'The Sense of an Ending', presents a range of positions in the debate around the demise of the postmodern; the second, 'Coming to Terms with the New', presents representative writings from the new '-isms' mentioned above. Each of the entries is prefaced by a brief introduction by the editors, in which they outline its central ideas, point out the similarities and/or differences from other positions found in the anthology, and suggest possible strengths and limitations to the insights presented in each piece"--
"An anthology of key writings on the so-called demise of postmodernism and the debates around what might replace it"
Content: Part 1 : The sense of an ending. 1. Epilogue : The postmodern ... in retrospect (2002) and gone forever, but here to stay : the legacy of the postmodern (2007) / Linda Hutcheon --
2. Beyond postmodernism : toward an aesthetic of trust (2003) / Ihab Hassan --
3. Postmodernism grown old (2005) / Steven Connor --
4. The death of postmodernism and beyond (2006) / Alan Kirby --
5. They might have been giants (2007) / John McGowan --
6. Post-postmodernism : or, the cultural logic of just-in-time capitalism (2012) / Jeffrey T. Nealon --
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Part 2 : Coming to terms with the new. 7. Remodernism --
The stuckist manifesto (1999) / Billy Childish and Charles Thomson --
Remodernism (2000) / Billy Childish and Charles Thomson --
8. Performatism --
'Introduction' from performatism, or the end of postmodernism (2008) / Raoul Eshelman --
Performatism, or the end of postmodernism (American Beauty) (2000, revised 2008) / Raoul Eshelman --
9. Hypermodernism --
Time against time, or the hypermodern society (2004, trans. 2005) / Gilles Lipovetsky --
10. Automodernism --
Auto-modernity after postmodernism : autonomy and automation in culture, technology, and education (2007) / Robert Samuels --
11. Renewalism --
Introduction : a wake and renewed? (2007) / Josh Toth and Neil Brooks --
From The passing of postmodernism : a spectroanalysis of the contemporary (2010) / Josh Toth --
12. Altermodernism --
Altermodern manifesto : postmodernism is dead (2009) / Nicolas Bourriaud --
Altermodern (2009) / Nicolas Bourriaud --
13. Digimodernism --
From Digimodernism : how new technologies dismantle the postmodern and reconfigure our culture (2009) / Alan Kirby --
14. Metamodernism --
Notes on metamodernism (2010) / Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker --
Conclusions --
15. Note on the supplanting of 'post-' / David Rudrum --
16. The anxieties of the present / Nicholas Stavris.
