The Off-Modern

di Svetlana Boym (Autore)

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017

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.

• Autore: Svetlana Boym
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Collana: International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics
• Anno: 2017
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 208 p.
• Dimensioni: 232 x 154 mm
• Peso: 820 gr.
• EAN: 9781501328978

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