The statue of Mercury in the reception area of the AT&T Building (Photograph by Tim Benton, RIBA Collection) from a very interesting article on the building and its architect Philip Johnson, by Aaron Betsky #architecture #postmodernism https://www.jencksfoundation.org/explore/text/1980-in-parallax-on-the-queerness-of-the-at-and-t-building

Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds". Probably don't eat them.

#Art #Artists #AiWeiwei #PostModernism

https://youtu.be/PueYywpkJW8?si=EJCB3L323TJr3J1x

Rachel Whiteread.

#Art #Artists #PostModernism #Sculpture #Minimalism #RachelWhiteread

https://youtu.be/h3BqweEOGm4?si=8h1oGnpcI352hF6e

I see a lot of conservatives really confused about #postmodernism.
How do I know? Because #MAGA is postmodern AF.

@philosophy

Below is a special kind of hell. The leaves have not even changed color yet.

Do we really need this? Baudrillard is laughing at us from the afterlife.

#consumerism #postmodernism

I think back when the word "postmodern" was coined, it was around the time when people realized they were becoming dependent on technology that they simply couldn't understand... technology like TV's and microwaves, that seemed more magical than mechanical.

Similar things had to happen to the other central pillars of Modernism... political power, economic patterns, etc. Everything was losing its clarity of outline.

And I doubt that clarity will ever come back.

#philosophy #postmodernism

I have to say, I think we're still living in a time that's under a certain shadow, and "postmodernism" was the first attempt (a little clumsy) to give that shadow a name.

It's the shadow of feeling alienated from pretty much everything, the sense that the world we're participating in is no longer comprehensible, no longer subject to any kind of logic or accountability.

We are thinking creatures in an unthinkable world.

#philosophy #postmodernism #chaos

Does #postmodernism boil down to minorities sick of being tone policed for standing up for themselves?

In The Collector

Is Everything Meaningless? Jacques Derrida & #Postmodernism
by Luke Dunne

"#Derrida sees #Heidegger’s work as so important in part because it offers ways of rebelling against the tendency towards “presence”—he thinks, for instance, that if we can turn away from presence and towards absence, we can start to understand what is present in terms of what is not."

https://www.thecollector.com/jacques-derrida-postmodernism/

@Hamishcampbell
I wonder if you might discuss a bit what #Postmodernism means and what its effects on society have been. My impression is it's basically, all our modern assumptions are bullshit, so we might as well make up our own truths. It seems to be a feature of both progressive activists and right wing populists. Am I close? I think that was me, calling bullshit on a lot of assumptions. But I'm coming to feel like I'm inching toward something else.

The #techshit #churning and #fashernista problem we have suffered from the last 15 years. Composting is a good use for #hashtags, but the is strong #blocking on this use.

The mess we have made with #postmodernism and #neoliberalisam of the last 40 years needs a path out of.

We can all agree it's a mess, can we agree to pick up shovels to compost this mess

@jonny am more thinking of #techshit #churning and #fashernista problem we have suffered from the last 15 years. Composting is a good use for #hashtags, but the is strong #blocking on this use.

The mess we have made with #postmodernism and #neoliberalisam of the last 40 years needs a path out of.

We can all agree it's a mess, can we agree to pick up shovels to compost this mess :)

Bwahaha, anti-lgbt parents would make their kids miss out on the coolest plots!

You can just taste the #postmodernism in Nimona. But it’s not tasteless, underneath the #narrative #deconstruction lies a good old premodern tale of sly evil masquerading as good and wise, and how everyone gets fooled all too easily.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimona_(film)

The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy
Guy Debord on LA riots

https://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/decline.html

#GuyDebord #Debord #Situationism #PostModernism

I'd like to discuss #Postmodernism with someone. I'm trying to figure out what I think about it. #InfiniteJest, #GravitysRainbow, #SlaughterhouseFive are among my favorite books, if that means anything.
A lot of these descriptions fit me:
"epistemological relativism, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism." I think those are good traits, but I have a creeping sense that something is missing...
Maybe I am a #Postmodernist who is slowly inching toward something else?

This is what It's like talking to meany #mainstreaming people about #climatechaos

Actually its most people in general, this is the outcome of 40 years of #neoliberalism and #postmodernism, worshipping this #deathcult has created a social mess and common sense insanity.

Kotaku: Should You Play Cyberpunk 2077 Now Or Wait For Phantom Liberty? https://kotaku.com/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty-when-play-price-changes-1850557776 #gaming #tech #kotaku #japanesecyberpunk #dystopianfiction #sciencefiction #postmodernism #cdprojektred #subcultures #futurology #cyberpunk #cdprojekt #phantom #culture #fiction #rpg

Kotaku: Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Sizable Patch Right Before Phantom Liberty Expansion https://kotaku.com/cyberpunk-2077-patch-update-163-phantom-liberty-bugs-1850556758 #gaming #tech #kotaku #dystopianfiction #worldofwarcraft #postmodernism #windowsgames #cdprojektred #sexonwheels #videogaming #subcultures #futurology #videogames #cyberpunk #cdprojekt #takemura #culture #flavio #jackie #quadra #razer #mitch #judy #amd #rpg

Shadwell Basin / Housing
Architects: MacCormac Jamieson Prichard & Wright for the LDDC, 1986-8.
#architecture #photography #PostModernism #TowerHamlets
https://imagesgeorgerex.blogspot.com/2023/06/shadwell-basin-housing.html

Kotaku: Cyberpunk 2077’s Expansion Will Add New (Maybe Happier?) Ending https://kotaku.com/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty-new-ending-choice-unlock-1850536118 #gaming #tech #kotaku #openworldvideogames #johnnysilverhand #dystopianfiction #gabeamatangelo #postmodernism #windowsgames #cdprojektred #thewitcher3 #subcultures #videogames #cyberpunk #cdprojekt #fallout4 #ve28099s #culture #phantom #fiction