Post-Postmodernism starts off with an easy premise: we not reside on this planet of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural common sense of past due capitalism" by way of Fredric Jameson in 1984. faraway from charting any basic circulate "beyond" postmodernism because the Nineteen Eighties, notwithstanding, this ebook argues that now we have skilled an intensification of postmodern capitalism over the last a long time, an expanding saturation of the industrial sphere into previously self sufficient segments of daily cultural lifestyles. If "fragmentation" used to be the popular watchword of postmodern the United States, "intensification" is the dominant cultural good judgment of our modern era.
Post-Postmodernism surveys a large choice of cultural texts in pursuing its analyses—everything from the vintage rock of Black Sabbath to the post-Marxism of Antonio Negri, from concerns of the company collage to the fare on the cineplex, from analyzing experimental literature to playing in Las Vegas, from Badiou to the undergraduate school room. Insofar as cultural nation-states of every kind have more and more been overcoded by means of the languages and practices of economics, Nealon goals to build a family tree of the yank current, and to construct a vocabulary for knowing the family members among financial construction and cultural creation today—when American-style capitalism, regardless of its contemporary battering, turns out nowhere close to the purpose of obsolescence. Post-postmodern capitalism is seldom overdue yet constantly simply in time. As such, it calls for an up to date conceptual vocabulary for diagnosing and responding to our replaced situation.