Brendan Graham DempseyJan 212 minWHAT IS METAMODERNISM?A Quick Intro to What Is Emerging After Postmodernism QUICK VERSION In the sequence of cultural paradigms (traditional, modern,...
Brendan Graham DempseyAug 7, 20208 minAfter 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...
Brendan Graham DempseyAug 7, 202011 minAfter Postmodernism: 9. My Work and Aesthetically-Mediated BeliefGOD AND AESTHETICALLY-MEDIATED BELIEF Responding with denial to the damning critique just leveled, the sunken deity defiantly refuses...
Brendan Graham DempseyAug 7, 20208 minAfter Postmodernism. 8. My Work and the Return of DimensionalityGOD, the first volume in the Icon, is an epic poem I wrote between 2011 and 2015, and in its themes and formal strategies exemplifies...
Brendan Graham DempseyAug 7, 20207 minAfter Postmodernism: 7. Summary: A Reconstructionist PeriodTOWARDS A (ROUGH) OUTLINE OF OUR CURRENT PERIOD As can be deduced from Lyotard, Harvey, and Jameson, Post-modernism in many ways...
Brendan Graham DempseyAug 7, 20208 minAfter Postmodernism: 6. Metamodernism Here I explore the metamodern paradigm, put forward by Timotheus Vermeulen, Robin van den Akker, and Allison Gibbons.
Brendan Graham DempseyAug 7, 20208 minAfter Postmodernism: 5. PerformatismEXHIBIT B: PERFORMATISM We turn then to performatism, a paradigm for understanding post-Postmodernism articulated by Raoul Eshelman, a...
Brendan Graham DempseyAug 7, 20209 minAfter Postmodernism: 4. RemodernismWhat comes after postmodernism? I start examining the first of three proposed paradigms: Remodernism. Begun by British artists reacting agai
Brendan Graham DempseyAug 7, 20206 minAfter Postmodernism: 3. Spirit and the Specter of IdentityUsing Ihab Hassan's essay, "Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust," we chart our way from late postmodernism into its aftermath
Brendan Graham DempseyAug 7, 202011 minAfter 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...
Brendan Graham DempseyAug 7, 202011 minAfter 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...
Brendan Graham DempseyJul 31, 20206 minPolitical MetamodernismA look at the political currents expressing themselves in terms of the metamodern paradigm.