Digimodernism : How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture

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A new theory to underpin our current digital culture.

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Introduction	p. 1
The Arguable Death of Postmodernism	p. 5
Children's Postmodernism: Pixar, Aardman, Dreamworks
Killing Postmodernism: Dogme 95, New Puritans, Stuckists
Burying Postmodernism: Performatism, Hypermodernity, and so on
Cock and Bull
The Digimodernist Text	p. 50
Reader Response
The Antilexicon of Early Digimodernism
A Prehistory of Digimodernism	p. 73
Industrial Pornography
Ceefax
Who Line is It Anyway?
House
B.S. Johnson's The Unfortunates
Pantomime
Digimodernism and Web 2.0	p. 101
Chat Rooms (Identity)
Message Boards (Authorship)
Blogs (Onwardness)
Wikipedia (Competence)
You Tube (Haphazardness)
Facebook (Electronic)
Digimodernist Aesthetics	p. 124
From Popular Culture to Children's Entertainment
The Rise of the Apparently Real From Irony to Earnestness
The Birth of the Endless Narrative
Digimodernist Culture	p. 166
Videogames
Film
Television
Raido
Music
Literature
Toward a Digimodernist Society?	p. 225
The Invention of Autism
The return of the Poisonous Grand Narrative
The Death of Competence
Conclusion: Endles	p. 246
Notes	p. 249
Works Cited	p. 263
Index	p. 271
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