Alan Kirby (writer)

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Alan Kirby is the author of The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond and of Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture, a book-length study of the same subject. Along with Nicolas Bourriaud, Gilles Lipovetsky, Raoul Eshelman, Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker he is an analyst of culture in the aftermath of postmodernism. Kirby believes that postmodernism began to retreat in the late 1990s, and has been superseded as a cultural dominant by what he calls "digimodernism" ("pseudomodernism" in the original article).

Kirby also published "Time for a New 'Ism'?" in the New Statesman on the death of Jean Baudrillard.

He lives and teaches in Oxford.

References

^ "The Challenge of the “Post-postmodern”" (PDF). http://www.aawp.org.au/files/Falconer_2009.pdf. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
^ "Introduction to digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture" (PDF). http://www.alanfkirby.com/Introduction.pdf. Retrieved 2012-05-07.

External links

The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond, Philosophy Now magazine
Introduction to Digimodernism
Article on The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond
Essay by Kirby on theories of post-postmodernism
Time for a New 'Ism'? New Statesman magazine
Postmodernism Curbed? Henri Art Magazine
Postmodernism is Out Digimodernism is In The Scavenger

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