Postmodernism and poststructuralism recognize no vantage points outside of the practice of art and politics, no transcendental signifiers to structure the experience of reality. That stance creates great problems for the old equations of the good and the beautiful, and it makes discussions of art deeply political in the sense all art embodies some particular social construction and economy of power. It also makes discussions of the political fully artistic in the sense of the imaginary transformations of the world.

Ethics / Aesthetics: Post-Modern Positions

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Maisonneuve

Martin begins with predictions that western civilization underwent a paradigm shift in the 20th century. Older forms of rationality are patriarchal; artistic forms are closed conventions and fulfill norms of logic and causality. The emerging forms of thought are feminine, open, and incompleterequiring nurture and creative participation of the reader for meaning to exist.

Open Form and the Feminine Imagination (Postmodern Positions)

Literature & Fiction

Martin, Stephen-Paul

History & Criticism

In modernism, conceptions of existence are bound up with a centered, observing subject. Global crises such as war and environmental degradation are rooted in metaphysical centricity. Pheby draws upon Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault to rethink philosophical discourse without a foundation in centered subject. An important book linking the poststructural critique of the self to social transformation.

Interventions: Displacing the Metaphysical Subject (Postmodern Positions)

Pheby, Keith C.

In modernism, conceptions of existence are bound up with a centered, observing subject. Global crises such as war and environmental degradation are rooted in metaphysical centricity. Pheby draws upon Heidegger, Derrida, and Foucault to rethink philosophical discourse without a foundation in a centered subject. An important book linking the poststructural critique of the self to social transformation.

Interventions: Displacing the Metaphysical Subject

In this collection, architects, city planners, and social theorists apply the poststructuralism of Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, de Man, Barthes, and Frankfurt School theory to the problems of cities. These insights challenge urban scholars to produce new ways of thinking about urbanism and making cities readable.

Philosophical Streets: New Approaches To Urbanism

Social Sciences

Theory, (Post)Modernity, Opposition: An Other Introduction To Literary and Cultural Theory

Theory, (Post)Modernity, Opposition: An Other Introduction To Literary and Cultural Theory (Postmodern Positions)

A provocative interrogation of contemporary theory which demonstrates how arguments "against theory" of humanist critics (Ellis, Steiner, Abrams), of "anti-theory" theorists (Fish, Rorty, Knapp, Michaels), and of the poststructuralist "resistance to theory" (de Man, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard) serve to de-politicize literary debate. To recover the transformative potential of theory, the authors call for a postmodernism based on resistance and an opening of spaces for oppositional practice and critical cultural studies.

Morton, Donald

Women's Voices on the Pacific: The International Pacific Policy Congress

In the opening weeks of 1991, members of Women for Mutual Security traveled to Baghdad to confer with Iraqi women, met on the South Pacific Island of Vanuatu to discuss the crisis-level intrusion of the industrialized West into the South Pacific, and organized women in the Philippines to oppose the continuation of U.S. military bases there. These essays promote a feminist agenda for world policies. Includes prominent women leaders from the South Pacific as well as from the East and West.

After the Storm: Poems on the Persian Gulf War

Poetry

Geography and Identity: Living and Exploring Geopolitics of Identity (Postmodern Positions)

anthology incl Ward Churchill, Gayatri Spivak &amp;c

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