The Off-Modern

Svetlana Boym (Harvard University, USA)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic USA
15 June 2017

Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Cultural studies; Media studies

Series: International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of Georg Simmel, Henri Bergson, Aby Warburg, and Jacques Derrida, Boym presents the off-modern as an eccentric, self-questioning, anti-authoritarian perspective with roots in the Russian avant-garde, now developed in surprising ways by contemporary artists, architects, and curators around the world. She illustrates the off-modern in discussions of (and with) figures as diverse as architect Rem Koolhaas, Albanian artist-turned-mayor Edi Rama, an art collective in Delhi, and the creator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. Both a manifesto and a memoir, The Off-Modern often returns to themes of travel and immigration, exploring issues of diasporic intimacy and productive estrangement amid nostalgic landscapes of urban ruins.

By: Svetlana Boym (Harvard University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 402g
ISBN: 9781501328978
ISBN 10: 1501328972
Series: International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 15 June 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Svetlana Boym was a literary amd cultural theorist and critic, visual artist, writer of fiction, and Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA.

Reviews for The Off-Modern

This delightful manifesto and memoir vividly captures Svetlana Boym's imaginative, passionate critical voice and creative endeavors. The Off-Modern dares to go off the beaten path to explore the side alleys of the modern project, celebrating the eccentric cultural productions that live off-center. * Giuliana Bruno, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, USA * Published posthumously, this book is a bitter-sweet pleasure to read. It comes from the off it theorizes, giving us a new way of thinking about art and life. The off-modern recovers impulses of the modern, expands their multiple geographic and aesthetic imaginaries in the present and projects them into the future. But it refuses to be in sync, either with a canonized past and its avant-garde utopias or with the digital techno-merchants of our day. The off-modern is a contemporary artistic practice across the world and a deeply experienced way of life for the diasporic migrant. * Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA *