(Ebook) Performatism Or the End of Postmodernism 1st Edition by Raoul Eshelman ISBN 9781888570410 1888570415

(Ebook) Performatism Or the End of Postmodernism 1st Edition by Raoul Eshelman ISBN 9781888570410 1888570415

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ISBN 10:  1888570415

ISBN 13: 9781888570410

Author: Raoul Eshelman

There is a widespread feeling that postmodernism is on its way out. However, up to now there has been no attempt to define what the epoch after it would look like. Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism is the first book to offer a systematic theory of culture after postmodernism. The book maintains that we have entered a new, monist epoch in which aesthetically imposed belief replaces endless irony as the dominant force in culture. This new cultural dominant, which I call performatism, works by artificially "framing" readers or viewers in such a way that they have no choice but to accept the external givens of a work and identify with the characters within it. In short, they are forcibly made to believe-if only within an particular aesthetic context. This basic procedure can be shown to operate not only in narrative genres like film and literature, but also in visual ones like art and architecture. This new aesthetic is documented in well-known films and novels such as American Beauty, The Celebration, Life of Pi, Middlesex, and The God of Small Things as well as in the work of major architects and artists such as Sir Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Andreas Gursky, Neo Rauch, and Vanessa Beecroft.

Table of contents: 

1. Contents

2. Introduction

3. Chapter One Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism

• Performatist Framing

• Performatist Subjectivity

• Theist Plots

• Theist Narrative

• Theist Creation in Architecture and the Visual Arts

• Performatist Sex

• Performatist Time and History

• History

• Cinematographic Time

• Summary

4. Chapter Two Performatism in Literature

• Checking out of the Epoch: Hotel World vs. “The Hotel Capital”

• Hotel World

• “The Hotel Capital”

• Pi’s Believe It or Not

• Sad Sacks vs. Smiles: Ingo Schulze’s Simple Stories

• Beautiful Otherness: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

• The End of Posthistory: Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader

• Conclusion

5. Chapter Three Performatism in the Movies

• Framing in Performatist Film

• From Deism to Theism

• Performatist Cinematography

• The Man Who Wasn’t There

• The Russian Ark

• Memento

6. Chapter Four Performatism in Architecture

• Transcendent Functionalism and the Spatial Representation of Ostensivity

• Performatist Architecture in Berlin

7. Chapter Five Performatism in Theory: The New Monism

• Pragmatic Performatism: “Against Theory”

• Paranoid Performatism: Boris Groys’s Under Suspicion

• Effervescent Performatism: Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherology

• Phenomenological Performatism: Jean-Luc Marion’s Being Given

• Summary

8. Chapter Six Performatism in Art

• Performatist Performance Art: Vanessa Beecroft

• Performatist Photography: Andreas Gursky’s Aesthetic Theism

• Thomas Demand: Bracketing the Real

• Performatist Painting

• Closed and Open Horizons: Bulatov, Gursky, and Eitel

• The Aesthetic Workshop of Neo Rauch

• Concluding Remarks

9. Index

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