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WHAT IS METAMODERNISM?
A Quick Intro to What Is Emerging After Postmodernism QUICK VERSION In the sequence of cultural paradigms (traditional, modern,...

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Jan 21, 20222 min read
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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...

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Aug 7, 20208 min read
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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...

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Aug 7, 202011 min read
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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...

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Aug 7, 20208 min read
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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...

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Aug 6, 20207 min read
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After Postmodernism: 6. Metamodernism
Here I explore the metamodern paradigm, put forward by Timotheus Vermeulen, Robin van den Akker, and Allison Gibbons.

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Aug 6, 20208 min read
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After Postmodernism: 5. Performatism
EXHIBIT B: PERFORMATISM We turn then to performatism, a paradigm for understanding post-Postmodernism articulated by Raoul Eshelman, a...

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Aug 6, 20208 min read
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After Postmodernism: 4. Remodernism
What comes after postmodernism? I start examining the first of three proposed paradigms: Remodernism. Begun by British artists reacting agai

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Aug 6, 20209 min read
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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

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Aug 6, 20206 min read
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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...

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Aug 6, 202011 min read
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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...

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Aug 6, 202011 min read
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Political Metamodernism
A look at the political currents expressing themselves in terms of the metamodern paradigm.

Brendan Graham Dempsey
Jul 31, 20206 min read
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