The Off-Modern

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Svetlana Boym

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Paperback / softback

Series:

International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

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Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of Georg Simmel, Henri Bergson, Aby Warburg, and Jacques Derrida, Boym presents the off-modern as an eccentric, self-questioning, anti-authoritarian perspective with roots in the Russian avant-garde, now developed in surprising ways by contemporary artists, architects, and curators around the world. She illustrates the off-modern in discussions of (and with) figures as diverse as architect Rem Koolhaas, Albanian artist-turned-mayor Edi Rama, an art collective in Delhi, and the creator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. Both a manifesto and a memoir, The Off-Modern often returns to themes of travel and immigration, exploring issues of diasporic intimacy and productive estrangement amid nostalgic landscapes of urban ruins.

Author Biography:

Svetlana Boym was a literary amd cultural theorist and critic, visual artist, writer of fiction, and Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA.

Release date Australia

June 15th, 2017

Author

Svetlana Boym

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

42 bw illus; 16 color illus

Pages

208

Series

International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

ISBN-13

9781501328978

Product ID

26089756

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