Table of Contents

Part 1: Postmodernism: a new representation? Paradigms of the Postmodern. Modernism and its Consequences: Continuity of Break?. Postmodernism: from Elite to Mass Culture? Conclusion: Resisting the Postmodern. Part 2: Essays on Postmodernism. One: Popular Culture. Introduction. Popular Music and Postmodern Theory, Andrew Goodwin. Recognizing a 'human-Thing': Cyborgs, Robots and Replicants in Philip K. Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' and Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner', Nigel Wheale. Two: Architecture and Visual Arts. Introduction. Three: Melancholy Meanings: Architecture, Postmodernity and Philosophy, Julian Roberts. Four: 'The World Is Indeed and Fabulous Tale': Yve Lomax - a Practice around Photography, Hilary Guest in dialogue with Yve Lomax. Five: Televising Hell: Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway's 'TV Dante', Nigel Wheale. Three: Literature. Introduction. A New Subjectivity? John Ashbery's 'Three Poems, Nigel Wheale. Reading the Satanic Verses, Gayatari Chakravorty Spivak. Four: The Real and the True: Documentary Film. Introduction. The Totalizing Quest of Meaning, Trinh T. Minh-Ha

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