Brendan Graham Dempsey | Meaningful Making

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5 min

Metamodern Mythopoetics: Manifesto

by Alesky Varian A. DEFINITION Exemplary of the metamodern sentiment (as first articulated by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den...

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Brendan Graham Dempsey

Apr 19
7 min

On Metamodern Pseudonymity

So, what’s up with the use of pseudonyms in metamodern literature? What is this great jest with persona and identity all about? Well, as...

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After Postmodernism: 10. My Work and the 'Specter of Identity'

Brendan Graham Dempsey

Aug 7, 2020
8 min

After Postmodernism: 10. My Work and the 'Specter of Identity'

GOD AND THE ‘SPECTER OF IDENTITY’ Of crucial importance in the last scene of the previous post, I think, is Joel’s decision to see Spirit...

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After Postmodernism: 9. My Work and Aesthetically-Mediated Belief

Brendan Graham Dempsey

Aug 7, 2020
11 min

After Postmodernism: 9. My Work and Aesthetically-Mediated Belief

GOD AND AESTHETICALLY-MEDIATED BELIEF Responding with denial to the damning critique just leveled, the sunken deity defiantly refuses...

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After Postmodernism. 8. My Work and the Return of Dimensionality

Brendan Graham Dempsey

Aug 7, 2020
8 min

After Postmodernism. 8. My Work and the Return of Dimensionality

GOD, the first volume in the Icon, is an epic poem I wrote between 2011 and 2015, and in its themes and formal strategies exemplifies...

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After Postmodernism: 7. Summary: A Reconstructionist Period

Brendan Graham Dempsey

Aug 7, 2020
7 min

After Postmodernism: 7. Summary: A Reconstructionist Period

TOWARDS A (ROUGH) OUTLINE OF OUR CURRENT PERIOD As can be deduced from Lyotard, Harvey, and Jameson, Post-modernism in many ways...

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Brendan Graham Dempsey

Aug 7, 2020
8 min

After Postmodernism: 6. Metamodernism

Here I explore the metamodern paradigm, put forward by Timotheus Vermeulen, Robin van den Akker, and Allison Gibbons.

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Brendan Graham Dempsey

Aug 7, 2020
8 min

After Postmodernism: 5. Performatism

EXHIBIT B: PERFORMATISM We turn then to performatism, a paradigm for understanding post-Postmodernism articulated by Raoul Eshelman, a...

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Brendan Graham Dempsey

Aug 7, 2020
9 min

After Postmodernism: 4. Remodernism

What comes after postmodernism? I start examining the first of three proposed paradigms: Remodernism. Begun by British artists reacting agai

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After Postmodernism: 3. Spirit and the Specter of Identity

Brendan Graham Dempsey

Aug 7, 2020
6 min

After Postmodernism: 3. Spirit and the Specter of Identity

Using Ihab Hassan's essay, "Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust," we chart our way from late postmodernism into its aftermath

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After Postmodernism: 2. The End of an Era

Brendan Graham Dempsey

Aug 7, 2020
11 min

After Postmodernism: 2. The End of an Era

Postmodernism dominated cultural and intellectual production during the 70s and 80s. In the 1990s, its energy began to dissipate; the...

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After Postmodernism: 1. What (Really) Was Postmodernism?

Brendan Graham Dempsey

Aug 7, 2020
11 min

After Postmodernism: 1. What (Really) Was Postmodernism?

We find ourselves in strange times. World historical forces are currently at work which (it seems safe to say) no one saw coming, and...

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Brendan Graham Dempsey

Jul 31, 2020
6 min

Political Metamodernism

A look at the political currents expressing themselves in terms of the metamodern paradigm.

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Brendan Graham Dempsey

Sep 19, 2019
3 min

Entry 7: Close

Dear Cellist, You are leaving now. And so am I. But neither to our anticipated destinations, it would seem. And that is fitting, I...

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Brendan Graham Dempsey

Jul 16, 2019
2 min

Entry 6: Interlude - cathedralmusic

Ah, Cellist, cellist, celestial > caelestis > caelum--heavenly Cellist; heavensong singer, what are these sweet tunes? This music?...

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Brendan Graham Dempsey

Jul 15, 2019
4 min

Entry 5: Walls

Dear Cellist, Let us be forever learning. I want to acquire new skills, new arts always. I am such a novice at life... Even now, just...

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Entry 4: Yes! say the jolly monks coming...

Brendan Graham Dempsey

Jul 10, 2019
3 min

Entry 4: Yes! say the jolly monks coming...

Ah, and so, dear Cellist, laughing-eyed, kind--we come to the heart of the matter. For while all this is true, and all the perennial...

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Brendan Graham Dempsey

Jul 3, 2019
4 min

Entry 3: Flood

Dear Cellist, ...Yes yes, all this is true. True, but not all. For, besides this most immediate occasion for my own individual...

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Brendan Graham Dempsey

Jul 2, 2019
3 min

Entry 2: Why

And so, dear Cellist--mon amour fantastique, mon semblable, mon frère--being apprised now of my new direction, its shape and hard...

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Brendan Graham Dempsey

Jul 1, 2019
2 min

Entry 1: A New Chapter

Dear Cellist, You know little about me, and neither do I as it turns out. So what else is there to do but paint in large letters and...

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