The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics, 2nd edition
Date
1987
Authors
Kroker, Arthur
Cook, David
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
New World Perspectives
Abstract
The Postmodern Scene is a series of major theorizations about key artistic and intellectual tendencies in the postmodern condition. A variety of texts, ranging from Nietzsche’s The Will to Power, Serres’ Hermes, Baudrillard’s Precession of Simulacra, the visual art of Fischl, Hopper, Colville, and Magritte and recent performance art are used as probes of the human fate in the contemporary century. Here a theoretical reflection is viewed as a privileged artistic act: simultaneously a critical encounter with the “shock of the real” and a meditation in the form of a lament over the “intimations of deprival” which speak to us now of postmodern culture, art, and philosophy in ruins.
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Keywords
postmodernism, the postmodern scene, the postmodern condition, Nietzsche, Serres, Baudrillard, shock of the real, postmodern culture, postmodern art, postmodern philosophy
Citation
Kroker, A. & Cook, D. (1987). The postmodern scene: Excremental culture and hyper-aesthetics, 2nd edition. Montréal, QC: New World Perspectives.