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Unnaming the system? Retrieving postmodernism's contemporaneity
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Roberts, Bill (2015) Unnaming the system? Retrieving postmodernism's contemporaneity. ARTMargins, 4 (2). pp. 3-23. doi:10.1162/ARTM-a-00116 ISSN 2162-2574.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ARTM_a_00116
Abstract
This article discusses the ongoing pertinence to the present of Fredric Jameson's work on postmodernism in the context of recent elaborations of “the contemporary” and “contemporaneity” in art history, theory and criticism. It is argued that, while postmodernism is fraught with contradiction and in any case irretrievable by now as a periodization of the present, it nonetheless remains crucially instructive for a fuller understanding and politicization of contemporaneity. In particular, both the nature of the relationship between culture and capital, as well as the theoretical imperative to totalize remain central to Jameson's problematic in ways that the discourse on the contemporary threatens to undo, in its resistance to historicism, and in its tendency to insist, not merely upon the heterogeneity, but upon the incommensurability of global cultures and space-times.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History of Art | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Postmodernism, Contemporary, The, in art , Minimal art, Conceptual art | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | ARTMargins | ||||||
Publisher: | MIT Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 2162-2574 | ||||||
Official Date: | June 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 4 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 3-23 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1162/ARTM-a-00116 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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