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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 | |