CONTENTS:
PART ONE – FOUNDING PROPOSITIONS
1. Answering the Question: What is postmodernism?
2. Note on the Meaning of "Post-"
3. The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point
4. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
PART TWO – MODERNITY COMPLETE AND INCOMPLETE
5. Modernity – An Incomplete Project
6. The Structure of Artistic Revolutions
7. The Last Days of Liberalism
8. The Fall of the Legislator
PART THREE – AESTHETIC AND CULTURAL PRACTICES
9. Toward a Concept of Postmodernism
10. Introduction to Terpsichore in Sneakers
11. The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism
12. Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A question of ends
13. The Evil demon of Images and The Precession of Simulacra
14. The City of Robots
15. Against Intellectual Complexity in Music
PART FOUR – CRISIS IN THE AVANT-GARDE
16. The Search for Tradition: Avant-garde and postmodernism in the 1970s
17. The Negation of the Autonomy of Art by the Avant-Garde
18. The Sublime and the Avant-Garde
19. The International Trans-Avant-Garde
PART FIVE – ARCHITECTURE AND URBANICITY
20. Toward a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance
21. The Emergent Rules
22. The Duck and the Decorated Shed
23. Postmodern
PART SIX – POLITICS
24. Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism
25. Politics and the Limits of Modernity
26. The Condition of Post-Marxist Man
27. Toward a Principle of Evil
PART SEVEN – FEMINISM
28. Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism
29. Feminism and Postmodernism
30. Social Criticism about Philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism
31. The Demise of Experience: Fiction as stranger than truth?
PART EIGHT – PERIPHERY AND POSTMODERNISM
32. Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today
33. Postmodernism and Periphery
34. Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A response to the "postmodern" condition