Supplanting the Postmodern

David Rudrum is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is the author of Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature (2013) and the editor of Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates (2006).Nicholas Stavris is a PhD student at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where he is writing a thesis on the legacy of postmodernism in contemporary fiction.

• IntroductionPart One: The Sense of an Ending“Epilogue: The Postmodern – In Retrospect”“Gone Forever But Here To Stay: The Legacy of the Postmodern” Linda Hutcheon“Beyond Postmodernism: Toward an Aesthetic of Trust”Ihab Hassan“Postmodernism Grown Old” Steven Connor“The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond”Alan Kirby“They Might Have Been Giants” John McGowanFrom Post-Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time CapitalismJeffrey NealonPart Two: Coming to Terms with the NewRemodernism Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, “The Stuckist Manifesto”Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, “Remodernism”PerformatismRaoul Eshelman, “Introduction”Raoul Eshelman, “Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism (American Beauty)”HypermodernismGilles Lipovetsky, from “Time Against Time, or The Hypermodern Society”AutomodernismRobert Samuels, “Auto-modernity after Postmodernism: Autonomy and Automation in Culture, Technology, and Education”RenewalismNeil Brooks and Josh Toth, “Introduction: A Wake and Renewed?”Josh Toth, from The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary AltermodernismNicolas Bourriaud, The Altermodern ManifestoNicolas Bourriaud, “Altermodern”DigimodernismAlan Kirby, from Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure our Culture MetamodernismTimotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker, “Notes on Metamodernism”Conclusions“Note on the Supplanting of ‘Post-’”David Rudrum“The Anxieties of the Present”Nicholas StavrisBibliographyIndex

I'm more than happy to see the postmodern supplanted. It's time!