I see this thread evolving towards the art world and its history. Thank you Gunnar Swanson.
This popped up on my radar this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyLUIXWnrC0
In the video there is an attack on the Post-Modern era vis a vis contemporary pop culture. It is obvious that we are now firmly submerged in the age of on demand video content media and are able to project messages to very specifically cultivated audiences. Words/text are becoming less and less meaningful in getting messages out to an audience.
If one has read their art history, you can see the parallels to the Dadaist movement back in the early going of the 20th century in this video. The cutting up of commercialization and using it to rebel and reveal the heart of darkness that lies beneath our daily existence. Although the Dadaists were rebelling against bourgeois colonialism of WW1 (wikipedia) , today's parallel can be found in a new medium that is beginning to take form and become a full blown globalized social movement. I see this new form of designed social commentary communication in the USA, UK, Japan, South Korea and in China. I surmise that it exists elsewhere there is high speed internet.
Politics and design go hand in hand on this listserv. We are all politicians and designers now, and we all have new tools of design to express our messages to very tightly cultivated audiences. So I will ask you again scholars....do you see the Post-Modern under threat and what in your worldview is coming next ? I implore your scholarly capabilities to dispense with trying to endlessly define the definitions of our day and to try to speculate on where you think we are going in order to open up new doors of perception for all of us to benefit from.
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