VL-IV pgs. 98/99: Postmodern Mysticism

[Robin Landseadel]

	 . . .In the meantime, in the interval between modernism's
	change of tense and the anticipated change of tense that
	postmodernism would someday undergo, somebody had to
	ask the question, "What Is Postmodernism?" and many people
	did, especially in the 1980's. Charles Jencks, one of the people
	who asked that question, sometimes claimed to have coined
	the term, at least in the architectural context. (There are other
	claimants in other contexts.) He even dared to date precisely
	the onset of postmodernism in architecture: July 15, 1972, 3:32
	pm, when part of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project in St.
	Louis was demolished. Pruitt-Igoe had been built in
	accordance with principles of the modernist International Style,
	and its manifest unlivability marked the failure of high
	modernism in architecture. . .

http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/fictionspresent/tense

On Jan 17, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Lawrence Bryan wrote:

> At this rate I expect mid 21st century literary critics to  be  
> referring to literary fads of durations measured in six month or  
> less segments, " The late post neo-romantic period of the last half  
> of 2037".
>
> Lawrence