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                  [Art Talk, by Cindy Nemser]

Post-post-modernism

On this page:  {Intro}
               {The Usual Suspects} (modernist terms)

  
  

Intro

One of the key ideas in our now, post post-modernist world is that we
have (yet again) steped off the cliff of a previous reality. And of
course THAT reality (ie, post-modernism) "should have" been enough
-- and yet here we are again.

Let's take a simple example:

Say we are in a group of people - some of which we know (slightly)
and some of which we "think" that we've seen before. It should be
at some place that isn't really taken as a "social situation" 
(eg, a book store that we frequent). Someone begins acting
odd (not quite hysterical but definitely odd). Now of the course
being modern, we get a bit worried. But then the behaviour continues
and a police officer is called and they (they always travel in twos)
shows up and begins questioning the person. Their behaviour continues
to be erratic - but *does* "connect" with the officer's (or officers'
in the case of "tag team" operations) questions. Eventually an
ambulence is called and the person is taken away.

Now this scene has played itself out again and again in MOVIES 
and we (as viewers) take almost no notice of it - it is such a
standard for plot exposition and development that we've almost
come to expect it. And of course the people in the movie act
in a certain (again expected) way. 

But. 

The reality of our experience in such a case is something that
we rarely think about.

That lack of introspection is what (i would say) is what post post-modernism
is all about. 


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The Usual Suspects 
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