Culture : the cultural logic of late capitalism -- Ideology : theories of the postmodern -- Video : surrealism without the unconscious -- Architecture : spatial equivalents in the world system -- Sentences : reading and the division of labor -- Space : utopianism after the end of utopia -- Theory : immanence and nominalism in postmodern theoretical discourse -- Economics : postmodernism and the market -- Film : nostalgia for the present -- Conclusion : secondary elaborations
Summary
This wide-ranging work seeks to crystallize a definition of postmodernism. The author looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from high art to low; from market ideology to architecture, from painting to punk; film, from video art to literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-430) and index
