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Critical modernism : where is post-modernism going? / Charles Jencks.

By: Jencks, Charles.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Chichester : Wiley-Academy, 2007Edition: [5th ed.].Description: 240 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9780470030110 ; 0470030119 ; 9780470030103 ; 0470030100 .Subject(s): Postmodernism | Arts, Modern -- 20th century | Architecture, PostmodernDDC classification: 709.04
Contents:
Origins and battles -- Hybrid culture -- The blurred society -- Wanning nations, rising heterarchy -- Cosmogenesis and the universe project -- Critical modernism.
Summary: After developing for thirty years as a movement in the arts, after being disputed and celebrated, Post Modernism has become an integral part of the cultural landscape. In this witty overview, Charles Jencks, the first to write a book defining the subject, argues that the movement is one more reaction from within modernism critical of its shortcomings. The unintended consequences of modernisation, such as the terrorist debacle and global warming, are typical issues motivating a Critical Modern response today. In a unique analysis, using many explanatory diagrams and graphs, he reveals the evolutionary, social and economic forces of this new stage of global civilisation. Critical Modernism emerges at two levels. As an underground movement, it is the fact that many modernisms compete, quarrel and criticise each other as they seek to become dominant. Secondly, when so many of these movements follow each other today in quick succession, they may reach a \'critical mass,\' a Modernism2, and become a conscious tradition.
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After developing for thirty years as a movement in the arts, after being disputed and celebrated, Post-Modernism has become an integral part of the cultural landscape. In this witty overview, Charles Jencks, the first to write a book defining the subject, argues that the movement is one more reaction from within modernism critical of its shortcomings. The unintended consequences of modernisation, such as the terrorist debacle and global warming, are typical issues motivating a Critical Modern response today. In a unique analysis, using many explanatory diagrams and graphs, he reveals the evolutionary, social and economic forces of this new stage of global civilisation. Critical Modernism emerges at two levels. As an underground movement, it is the fact that many modernisms compete, quarrel and criticise each other as they seek to become dominant. Secondly, when so many of these movements follow each other today in quick succession, they may reach a 'critical mass,' a Modernism2, and become a conscious tradition.

Previous ed.: published as What is post-modernism? London: Academy Editions, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index.

Origins and battles -- Hybrid culture -- The blurred society -- Wanning nations, rising heterarchy -- Cosmogenesis and the universe project -- Critical modernism.

After developing for thirty years as a movement in the arts, after being disputed and celebrated, Post Modernism has become an integral part of the cultural landscape. In this witty overview, Charles Jencks, the first to write a book defining the subject, argues that the movement is one more reaction from within modernism critical of its shortcomings. The unintended consequences of modernisation, such as the terrorist debacle and global warming, are typical issues motivating a Critical Modern response today. In a unique analysis, using many explanatory diagrams and graphs, he reveals the evolutionary, social and economic forces of this new stage of global civilisation. Critical Modernism emerges at two levels. As an underground movement, it is the fact that many modernisms compete, quarrel and criticise each other as they seek to become dominant. Secondly, when so many of these movements follow each other today in quick succession, they may reach a \'critical mass,\' a Modernism2, and become a conscious tradition.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface - A refolution in five parts
  • Chapter 1 Origins and Battles
  • PM is Critical Modernism
  • The Many Deaths of Modernism
  • Two Views of Post-Modernism
  • Post-modern Speaks Us
  • Screams in the Cathedral
  • Modernism as a Protestant Crusade
  • Success Tames the Avant-garde
  • Chapter 2 Hybrid Culture
  • Double Coding and Irony
  • Not Even Pastiche
  • Complexity and the Enigmatic Signifier
  • Post-modern Art - Cross-coding with Content
  • Irony on the Verge of Cynicism
  • Chapter 3 The Blurred Society
  • The Rise of the Cognitariat
  • The Triumph of the Muddle Class
  • The Rise of Socitalism
  • Cyclical, Linear and Crystalline Time
  • Chapter 4 Waning Nations, Rising Heterarchy
  • Destructive Modernity
  • The Transnational Heterarchy
  • New World Order as Heterarchy
  • Being Wise before the Event
  • The Post-modern States
  • One Cheer for the EU
  • The Search for an Effective Heterarchy
  • Chapter 5 Cosmogenesis and the Universe Project
  • Belief in a Universe 13.7 Billion Years Big
  • Complexity as a Measure of Quality
  • Two Types of Evolution
  • A Cultural Drive?
  • The Universe Project
  • A Jumping Universe
  • Chapter 6 Critical Modernism
  • Creative to be Critical
  • A Critical Iconography
  • A Critical Coding
  • A Critical Spirituality?
  • Critical Theory Carves up Doomsday Fatigue
  • Critical Modernism as a Continuous Dialectic
  • The White Elephant Theory of Modernism
  • The Ten-year Rule and Continuous Refolution
  • Hidden Tradition or Process?
  • Critical Modernism - a Conscious Movement?
  • Notes & References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Architectural critic and historian Charles Jencks is the author of, among many other titles, Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture (Doubleday 50M copies sold to date)., The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, and The Architecture of the Jumping Universe.

(Bowker Author Biography)