...Andreas Huyssen Introduction: Modernism after Postmodernity Andreas Huyssen Ah the old questions, the old answers, Thereʼs nothing like them...

...Reinhold Martin New German Critique, Inc. 2006 The Last War: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again Reinhold Martin Referring to the “checkmate” performed by advanced capitalism despite the Shklov skian “knightʼs moves” attempted by the...

...Karen Leeder This introduction addresses the interrelated ideas of lateness, belatedness, anachronism, untimeliness, old age, and “late style” that run through this special issue. After a brief overview of recent thinking about time, especially in the transition from modernity to postmodernity, it...

... vacui of the postmodern subject, and reads the excessive sharing of every moment as a flight from the self and toward the “homeland” of the network. With a nod to Paul Ricoeur's concept of narrative time, Siegfried Kracauer's description of photography as the mere recording of the material, and Zygmunt...

... Richter's best-known paintings— Warum ich kein Konservativer bin (2000), Eine Stadt namens Authen (2001), and Phienox (2000)—I explore the complexities of political painting in today's world. Through a consideration of Richter's neosymbolist style, his postmodern penchant for citation, the influence of the...

...Kirstin Gwyer Once a corollary of modernity, a response to innovation and acceleration, manifesting itself as decadence, pessimism, or an apocalyptic sense of living in an age nearing its end, lateness in our more recent—postmodern(ist), posthistorical, posttraumatic—times has been revaluated. No...

... in the humanities (e.g., deconstruction), Luhmann never advanced his ideas with close readings of classical texts. Nevertheless, underneath the dissonance of the theoretical language that he used, the resonance with “postmodern” trends was profound, and a small but persistent cohort of scholars...

...João Pedro Cachopo Abstract This article reappraises the relevance of Theodor W. Adorno’s aesthetics in the aftermath of the postmodern debate. It proposes a shift of focus from the concept of “semblance character” to the concept of “enigmatic character” in order to grasp what Adorno means by the...

... 2006 New German Critique Number 99 • Fall 2006 Modernism after Postmodernity Introduction: Modernism after Postmodernity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Andreas Huyssen Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture: Bruno Tautʼs Translations...

... Brunkhorst, “Adorno, Heidegger, and Postmodernity,” in Universalism versus Communi- tarianism: Contemporary Debates in Ethics, ed. David Rasmussen (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990), 183–96; Alexander García Düttmann, The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Heidegger and Adorno, trans. Nicholas Walker (London...

... American postmodernism eupho- ria in the mid-1980s a new debate about modernity has resurfaced. What once seemed to have been relegated to the dustbin of scholarly archives has returned with a vengeance. Far from condemning this return (as does Jameson) as a regression, I see it as a breath of fresh...

... essay “Heimat und keine” (“Home and None”) by Heinrich Böll,11 both of whom argue for a notion of Heimat that must be   7. David Harvey, employing a term coined by Anthony Giddens in The Consequences of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity, 1990), speaks of the contemporary postmodern condition as...

... theatrical representation and postmodern theater. Certainly Wilsonʼs version contained many of the basic ingredients of the now classical Wilsonian style. Central to this aesthetic from the very begin- ning was the staging of what Wilson calls found objects, which he aggressively moves to the...

... the postmodernism debates. All the more so as figures like Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud were central to both traditions. If this special issue focuses on theory transfer from Germany alone, the last thing we have in mind is a revival of that old trope and its national...

...–World War II culture was expanded with the special issue (no. 33 and way oversized) on modernity and postmodernity. As NGC developed its position in the debate about modernism and modernity in intense discussions over time, Andreas was crucial in conceptualizing and editing this influential...

... with the look of an antiquated Heimat fi lm prompts larger questions about the overall effects of fi lmic allu- sions. In analyzing his use of melodrama, Heidi Schlipphacke fi rst refl ects on German attitudes toward the practice of modernist and postmodern aesthetics. Following Fredric Jameson, she...

... . 1992 . Crossing Borders: Reception Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press . Horn Eva . 2007 . “Editor's Introduction: ‘There Are No Media.’” Grey Room , no. 3 : 6 – 13 . Jameson Fredric . 1991 . Postmodernism; or, The Cultural...

... law of commodity production, both frees the outmoded object from the grip of utility and reveals the hollow promise of that law.4 Similarly, in an essay on retro, postmodernism, and the French film Delica- tessen (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1991), Thorne writes: Retro commodities...

... modernism transformed the museum, as museums embraced modernism and assimilated its critique during the twentieth century. In this regard, Huyssenʼs analysis of the contemporary museum as mass medium offers a valuable point of reference to revisit the modernist critique from a postmodern...

... multifaceted than what the initial proponents of postmodernism were willing to acknowl- edge, the relation of modernism to the world at large is still a growing fi eld of research.2 The customary account about the impact of modernist architectural movements on countries that remain outside the imaginary...