#postmodernism — Public Fediverse posts
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Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets look at why we need to act on the digital drug problem. The everyday digital drug fix starts with a notification, you pick up your phone because you get a notification. You unlock it, check the notification. Then maybe you look at one thing, then another, then another and suddenly an hour have disappeared. You didn't decide to spend the next hour staring at short videos selected by a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-common-sense-is-a-cage-we-dont-have-to-worship-this-mess/
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Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
The problem of #dotcons is attention capture, its why #digitaldetox is a part of the #OMN toolbox. So lets look at why we need to act on the digital drug problem. The everyday digital drug fix starts with a notification, you pick up your phone because you get a notification. You unlock it, check the notification. Then maybe you look at one thing, then another, then another and suddenly an hour have disappeared. You didn't decide to spend the next hour staring at short videos selected by a […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-common-sense-is-a-cage-we-dont-have-to-worship-this-mess/
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Islington Fire Station, London, 2025
Designed by the Fire Brigade's in-house architect, Peter J Smith, built in 1992. I would normally dislike many of its' individual features (blue window frames? No, thank you), but as a whole it's totally whimsical.
📸 View HD images at https://modernistdelights.com/islington-fire-station-london-2025/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=mastodon
#1990sarchitecture #photography #dslrphotography #islington #london #londonphotography #postmodernism
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Focus Design & Patrimoine Numérique
La Sicos Fancy Mouse (1993) : exemple de la démocratisation du Memphis Design dans les objets du quotidien :
🎨 Palette néon déconstructiviste sur fond sombre.
📐 Forme parallélépipédique faisant fi de l'ergonomie biomécanique au profit du statement visuel.
✍️ Graphismes 'squiggle' et motifs géométriques asymétriques.L'aurais-tu mise sur ton bureau ?
#MemphisDesign #DesignHistory #RetroComputing #PostModernism #MastoArt
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Another 100th birthday already: John Fowles, author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Magus" & many other Postmodern novels, was #BOTD 100 years ago.
Find many of his works & secondary works of #LiteraryStudies on Fowles in our collection! -
End of the Road:
John Barth
American postmodernist novelist dies aged 93Along with William #Gass, Stanley #Elkins and other peers, #Barth was part of a wave of writers in the 1960s who challenged standards of language and plot.
The author of 20 books including Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor, Barth was a college writing instructor who advocated for #postmodernism to literature, saying old forms were used up and new approaches were needed.
Barth’s passion for literary theory and his innovative but complicated novels made him a writer’s writer.
Barth said he felt like Scheherazade in The Thousand and One Nights, desperately trying to survive by creating literature.
He created a bestseller in 1966 with 🔹Giles Goat-Boy,🔹 which turned a college campus into a microcosm of a world threatened by the cold war, and made a hero of a character who is part goat.
The following year, he wrote a postmodern manifesto, 🔸The Literature of Exhaustion, 🔸which argued that the traditional novel suffered from a “used-upness of certain forms.”
The influential essay described the postmodern writer as one who “confronts an intellectual dead end and employs it against itself to accomplish new human work”.
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I'd like to discuss #Postmodernism with someone. I'm trying to figure out what I think about it. #InfiniteJest, #GravitysRainbow, #SlaughterhouseFive are among my favorite books, if that means anything.
A lot of these descriptions fit me:
"epistemological relativism, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism." I think those are good traits, but I have a creeping sense that something is missing...
Maybe I am a #Postmodernist who is slowly inching toward something else? -
Hip Hop Samples Jazz: Dynamics of Cultural Memo y and Musical Tradition in the African American 1990s
The critical attempt to historicize hip hop dates at least to David Toop’s 1984 "Rap Attack: African Griots to New York Jive", a book written with journalistic immediacy and yet, as its subtitle suggests, one that situates rap reportage in the black musical "longue durée" but it wasn’t until the mid- 1990s that efforts toward an academic hip hop scholarship began in earnest, and it was then that ideas about the music’s methods and meanings as rooted in the black musical past became common currency. This view wasn’t surprising: a neat and untroubled line could be traced from the classic African American toasts to rap, and the use of digital sampling, whereby hip hop producers constructed their work from (black) music’s recorded back catalog, was equally suggestive for historically minded observers. This sampling practice, and its “historical” interpretation, form the central subject of this article.
Certainly, hip hop’s early scholars differed in their reasoning as to what the form’s use of old records meant for black music and history. Some positioned the practice as part of a linear, cultural-national tradition, sometimes shaded with essentialism. William Eric Perkins claimed, with totalizing confidence, that “sampling was and is hip hop’s ongoing link with history and tradition, including all of the African and African American musical genres.” a more modulated Kyra D. Gaunt contended that hip hop’s sampling was “the perfect medium for expressing the temporal culture-scape of who we are, and how we became, across time.”https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.29.3.0277
#hiphop #jazz #culturalmemory #musicaltradition #africanamerican #1990s #sampling #musichistory #blackculture #hiphopscholarship #digital sampling #toasts #africanamericanmusic #essentially #temporalculture #constructivisttheorizations #vernaculars #politics #postmodernism #rhythmandblues #funk #rapmusic #samplingdebates #recordproduction #hiphopculture #musicindustry #copyrightlaw #publicdomain #intellectualproperty #musicappropriation #musicalintertextuality #remixculture #blackpopularculture
