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| Preface | |
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| The aims of this book | |
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| Using this book | |
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| Postmodernisms | |
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| Postmodernism is everywhere | |
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| Pre-history | |
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| Modernity and enlightenment | |
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| Modernity and modernization | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Issues in high and low culture, part one: architecture and literature | |
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| Modernist architecture | |
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| Plural coding | |
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| The function of postmodern architecture | |
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| Looking to Las Vegas | |
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| Literature: close that gap | |
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| Issues in high and low culture, part two: visual art | |
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| Make it new! | |
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| Playing among the ruins: a brief history of postmodernism in the art world | |
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| Modernism and autonomy | |
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| Andy Warhol, postmodernist | |
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| The end of the art world as they know it? | |
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| Summary | |
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| The loss of the real | |
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| On television | |
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| Welcome to Planet Baudrillard | |
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| Images in the floating world | |
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| In summary | |
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| Influences, comparisons and dialogues | |
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| The deconstruction of meaning | |
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| Saussure | |
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| Structuralists at work | |
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| Poststructuralism | |
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| Poststructuralists at work | |
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| Deconstructing opposites | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Writing | |
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| New historicism: a postmodern approach to history | |
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| Deconstruction and architecture | |
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| Concluding thoughts | |
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| Postmodern identities, part one: transformations of the self | |
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| The changing nature of the self | |
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| The stylization of life | |
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| Identity in the city | |
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| Cyberpeople | |
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| The next sexual revolution? | |
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| You will never know the real me: Madonna | |
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| Identity as construction | |
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| Summary | |
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| Postmodern identities, part two: theories of subjectivity | |
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| Michael Foucault: the invention of man | |
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| Let's talk about sex | |
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| Summary | |
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| The deconstructed self: Jacques Lacan | |
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| Is the postmodern condition schizophrenic? | |
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| Summary | |
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| The fiction of expression | |
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| New romantics, old romantics | |
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| The Death of the Author | |
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| Summary | |
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| Postmodern politics | |
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| Lyotard: when worlds collide | |
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| The transformation of Marxism | |
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| Postmodern micropolitics | |
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| The techniques of daily life | |
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| Criticisms of post-Marxism | |
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| Postmodernism, truth and history | |
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| Postmodern space | |
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| Theorizing in the city | |
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| Local versus global culture | |
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| Non-places | |
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| Post-coloniality | |
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| Does postmodernism mean not believing in anything? some problems of cultural relativism | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Taking it further | |
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| Books | |
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| Websites | |
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| Index | |