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It is in the realm of architecture, however, that modifications
in aesthetic production are most dramatically visible, and that their theoretical
problems have been most centrally raised and articulated; it was indeed
from architectural debates that my own conception of postmodernism....initially
began to emerge.
Frederick
Jameson POSTMODERNISM OR THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM
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America
is neither dream nor reality. It
is a hyperreality. It is a hyperreality because it is a utopia which
has behaved from the very beginning as though it were already achieved.
Jean Baudrillard,
AMERICA
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What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented
by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions
are losing their attraction. And it does not look as though they wilt be
replaced, at least not on their former scale...
Jean-Francoise
Lyotard
The
Post-Modern Condition, 1979
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Disturbed not so much by the "sense" of postmodernism but
by the conventional language used when it is written or talked about and
by those who speak it, I find myself on the outside of the discourse looking
in. As a discursive practice it is dominated primarily by the voices
of white male intellectuals and/or academic elites who speak to and about
one another with coded familiarity
Bell Hooks
"Postmodern
Blackness"
PRACTICE:
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Billionaires
for Bush or Gore
Panic USA as a postmodern screen - a spectral image - onto
which are projected all of the violent, yet ecstatic, symptoms of
culture burnout at the fin-de-millenium. Like a gigantic superconductor
in solid state physics in which all of the molecular switches have
suddenly snapped open at a certain warming point, America is now
an empty, transparent, and relational medium - a perfect postmodern
mediascape - for processing at hallucinogenic speeds all of the
dying energies of the social.
Panic Encyclopaedia:
A Definitive Guide to the PostModern Scene
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It is thus desire that accounts for the subject's trajectory through
the human world, which according to Lacan
"isn't a world of things, it isn't a world of being, it is a world of desire
as such." (3) This is true for Lynch's movies, as well for the relation
of the spectator to the cinema in general.
Bernd Herzogenrath, On the "Lost
Highway" : Lynch
and Lacan, Cinema and Cultural Pathology