a kind of forever present

a kind of forever present takes the form of a theatrical script to perform a fictitious conversation among cultural theorists who ponder the question: what ever happened to postmodernism?

Authored by James Voorhies

Bureau for Open Culture, 2011
32 pages
8.25 x 5 inches

Designed by Nate Padavick

Made possible with support from Bernhard Cella, Salon für Kunstbuch and 21er Haus; realized while I was working as an independent curator

The script in a kind of forever present is composed of excerpts of seminal writings by Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, Jürgen Habermas, Clement Greenberg, and Jennifer Allen culled and combined into a fictitious, anachronistic conversation. They talk about the transformations of postmodernism into a contemporary hybrid stream of social media and digital technologies impacting the connections one has with time, place, and each other.

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