Postmodernism - Andrew M Butler

The only book to approach postmodernism in an easy-to-digest fashion (best enjoyed whilst listening to Finnish-Hindi fusion blues and eating a hamburger in Red Square), the ideas of leading theorists such as Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard and Fredric Jameson, the brave new virtual world of postmodern science fiction, and the intersection of feminism and postmodernism are all explained and examined. A range of books, films, artists and TV series are discussed from the point of view of postmodern aesthetics, and arguments against postmodernism are explored.