Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the twentieth century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun exuberance irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface post-modernism had a dirty secret: it was the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism. It was also the forcing ground of the 'post truth' by means of which western values got turned upside down.<br><br><br><br>But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continues to today.<br><br><br><br>He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes David Bowie the iPod Frederic Jameson the demolition of Pruit-Igoe Madonna Post-Fordism Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit' Deleuze and Guattari the Nixon Shock The Bowery series Judith Butler and more.<br><br><br><br>We are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Can we do anything else than suffer from buyer's remorse?
