Listing all posts tagged postmodernism

Monday, February 13th

How Art Works? by Tymek Borowski and Pawel Sysiak. I really recommend you take twelve minutes to watch this to the end.

Art desperately needs a resurgence of ‘coarse’, earnest artists. Forty years of evolution of the least common denominators between conceptualism, the postmodernist outlook of history, the liberal markets and the academic tradition led to a vicious cycle of non-stop bullshitting in the art world, which fed both the speculators and the dandies who brought about the twin curses of ‘creative industries’ and hipsterism — which in turn eventually led to this guy.

So let’s ‎”try to communicate as simply and directly as possible, even if it sounds stupid.”

Monday, June 6th 2011

Via Kottke, a graphic design exploration of the world of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. It’s hard to describe how amazing this is, unless you’ve read it (I’m still 200 pages from the end). Be warned, this is the kind of book which is like an endless vacation in which every meal is a heavy banquet: great but incredibly demanding of endurance.

Also worth remembering in its utter postmodern awesomeness: illustrations of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.

Thursday, July 30th 2009