Critical Vices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory / Edition 1

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This book of Nicholas Zurbrugg's challenging and provocative essays charts the most exciting developments in late 20th-century multimedia art.
Zurbrugg challenges Jean Baudrillard's, Fredric Jameson's, and Achille Bonito-Oliva's unfavorable accounts of postmodern techno-culture. Interweaving literary and cultural theory, and visual studies, Zurbrugg demonstrates how multimedia visionaries such as Bill Viola and Robert Wilson are notable exceptions to the neutering of mass-media culture, bringing together the modernist and postmodern avant-garde.
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Art Monthly
Zurbrugg is an informed and intelligent critic; he is as knowledgeable about the theorists he criticizes as he is about the artists and poets he chooses to celebrate, and he brings considerable intellectual flair to his arguments.
J.G. Ballard
Nicholas Zurbrugg is a superb guide to that confusing adventure-playground called postmodernism. Critical Vices reveals all Professor Zurbrugg's critical virtues at their best, in a witty, lucid and always accessible prose. Highly recommended.
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Table of Contents

Introduction to the Series
Acknowledgments
One or Two Final Thoughts (A Retrospective Preface)
Essays
1 Marinetti, Boccioni and Electroacoustic Poetry: Futurism and After 1
2 The Limits of Intertextuality: Barthes, Burroughs, Gysin, Culler 17
3 Postmodernity, Metaphore Manquee and the Myth of the Trans-avant-garde 41
4 Baudrillard's Amerique and the "Abyss of Modernity" 65
5 Jameson's Complaint: Video Art and the Intertextual "Time-Wall" 85
6 Postmodernism and the Multimedia Sensibility: Heiner Muller's Hamletmachine and the Art of Robert Wilson 105
7 Baudrillard, Modernism, and Postmodernism 119
8 "Apocalyptic"? 'Negative"? "Pessimistic"?: Baudrillard, Virilio, and Technoculture 145
9 Baudrillard, Giorno, Viola and the Technologies of Radical Illusion 165
Commentary
10 Zurbrugg's Complaint, or How an Artist Came to Criticize a Critic's Criticism of the Critics 175
Notes 207
Sources 235
Index 237
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