The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-aesthetics, Arthur Kroker and David Cook, delves into the provocative intersections of cultural decay and aesthetic excess that define contemporary society. It examines how postmodernity embraces the grotesque, the abject, and the paradoxically sublime in a world saturated by media spectacle and consumerism. This text offers a critical exploration of how cultural production increasingly foregrounds the detritus of everyday life, transforming waste—both literal and metaphorical—into sites of artistic and theoretical significance. Through its incisive analysis, it challenges traditional notions of beauty and cultural value, revealing the ways in which hyper-aestheticization simultaneously obscures and illuminates deeper socio-political dynamics.
The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-aesthetics, Arthur Kroker and David Cook, delves into the provocative intersections of cultural decay and aesthetic excess that define contemporary society. It examines how postmodernity embraces the grotesque, the abject, and the paradoxically sublime in a world saturated by media spectacle and consumerism. This text offers a critical exploration of how cultural production increasingly foregrounds the detritus of everyday life, transforming waste—both literal and metaphorical—into sites of artistic and theoretical significance. Through its incisive analysis, it challenges traditional notions of beauty and cultural value, revealing the ways in which hyper-aestheticization simultaneously obscures and illuminates deeper socio-political dynamics.
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 1988 softcover, copy has some shelf wear see photos, overall a clean copy in good condition
