Reactionary Modernism: Thoughts on the Post-Postmodern Condition

摘要

What Is Reactionary Modernism? The epoch of postmodernism and enchanted consumption is over and its emancipatory attributes linger in subterranean stasis. As Cova and Maclaran (2012) mention, the second decade of the new millennia has marked the end of postmodernism. In the past few years we have witnessed the suppression of multivocality related to knowledge and a shift away from the cultural economy towards the monolithic, global, brand-centered, experience. The role of the aesthetic and the symbolic has given way to concrete objectification facilitated by constructed myth that supports a dogmatic, all-encompassing philosophical system.