Thursday, 19 December 2019

basis for exploring a dialectic between jungianism and postmodernism?

The deeper element of contention between JP and Postmodernism is that positing any theory of meaning whatsoever presupposes a metaphysic, or a notion of purpose, significance, or belonging—being part of the universe— rather than a notion of separation; by this I mean a heightened perception of reality’s indifference to us, and its radically contingent or absurd nature. It is not a surprise given this conception that so many Philosophers including postmodernists have become Nihilists or skeptical agnostics in relation to ontological or personal meaning. Avital Ronell is a quintessential, and even better, palpably ironic, example.

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Wednesday, 4 December 2019

Metamoderism is the only progressive impulse in art

Postmodernism is entirely stymied by neoliberalism. The idea that you can talk and reason your way out of the current cultural situation is laughable. Only irrational enthusiasm can carry us forward. There are a couple of bridges that need to be crossed to get there (that postmodernist approaches are doomed in the mire, that we can carry ourselves past our own absurdity) but that's where we are.
Metamodernism is the only progressive impulse in art. The only approach capable of carrying the tradition forward. To pin any hopes on some regrouping of the postmodern, some new vitality from that vector, is futile, it's story is told. So the choice is to stagnate and die in irrelevance and be replaced by the art of some new religious outpouring at some indeterminate point in the future, unconnected to art as it has been, or to replace the non-functional parts of postmodern approaches with the powerful, liberatory, parts of modernism, and the parts of modernist approaches that fell short due to incorrect understandings with the lessons of postmodernism.
Any metamodernist art that exists has to this point been very tentative, it's going to require artists with an uncommon drive toward self destruction, as well as artists with an uncommon drive toward social destruction, in order for the full potency of metamodernism to be understood.