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installs and then subverts the very concepts it challenges.

postmodernism is a contradictory phenomenon, one that uses and abuses, installs and then subverts, the very concepts it challenges'(Hutcheon, Poetics 3).

I define postmodern as incredulity toward meta-narratives,

is not an age, but a mood or better, a state of mind.

a mood or better, a state of mind 1986:209).

is a celebration of the capability of the signifier itself to create new forms and, indeed, new rules.

Postmodernism celebrates the capability of the signifier itself to create new forms and, indeed, new rules.

is not modernism at its end but modernism in the nascent state... thus, a work can become modern only if it is first postmodern.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant. Lyotard

is modernism in the nascent state... that is, in process of emerging rather than being identifiable as part of an aesthetic creed operating according to agreed ground rules by which artworks could then be judged.

Duchamp's art seems to bear out Lyotard's contention that postmodernism is modernism 'in the nascent state' (PC, 79)... that is, in process of emerging rather than being identifiable as part of an aesthetic creed operating according to agreed ground rules by which artworks could then be judged. (Sim p23)

is that which in the modern invokes the unpresentable in presentation itself, that which refuses the consolation of correct forms, refuses the consensus of taste permitting a common experience of nostalgia for the impossible, and inquires into new presentations not to take pleasure in them, but to better produce the feeling that there is something unpresentable.

that which in the modern invokes the unpresentable in presentation itself, that which refuses the consolation of correct forms, refuses the consensus of taste permitting a common experience of nostalgia for the impossible, and inquires into new presentations not to take pleasure in them, but to better produce the feeling that there is something unpresentable (The Postmodern Explained, 15).

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