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The Social as the Medium: A Review of Johanna Drucker’s The General Theory of Social Relativity
Between the manifesto and the treatise, the text and the paratext, the theoretical and the poetic, the aphoristic and the systematic: Manuel Portela situates the "expressive richness" of Johanna Drucker's "General Theory," and its critique of present social and political formations.
What [in the World] was Postmodernism? An Introduction
An Introduction to the gathering.
What is Metamodernism and Why Bother? Meditations on Metamodernism as a Period Term and as a Mode
Alexandra Dumitrescu’s essay describes the development of metamodernism in New Zealand and presents metamodernism as an interrogation of “modernist uprootedness or postmodern drifting.”
The Historical Status of Postmodernism Under Neoliberalism
Simon During proposes to unravel the “layered” history of postmodernism in New Zealand. In so doing, the author of this essay treats postmodernism as “an event rather than a period” and describes postmodernism’s development in the epoch of neo-liberalism.
Nominalisms Ancient and Modern: Samuel Beckett, the Pre/Post/Modernist?
While describing the work of Beckett as deeply influenced by nominalism, Holly Phillips explores “ineffable permutations of intellectual history” and demonstrates how medieval philosophy has deeply influenced twentieth century literature. Simultaneously, Phillips undermines the idea that nominalism’s dismantlement of universals has finally been accomplished by postmodernism.