Ex Post Modernism: How the First Amendment Framed Nonrepresentational Art

Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism

Post-War Modernism and the Music Classroom

During the late 1960s, music educators introduced the idioms of post-war modernism (otherwise known as the avant-garde) into British classrooms. As a result, creative music making, composing and improvisation, became an established part of the curriculum. However the actual idioms of musical modernism have largely vanished from schools. The writer explores the reasons for this decline, while ac...

Nonrepresentational Theory/Nonrepresentational Geographies

Glossary Affect The pre-personal capacity for bodies to be affected (by other bodies) and, in turn, affect (other bodies). This capacity for affecting and being affected subsequently defines what a body is and can do. Everyday Life The setting for the routine and mundane, but also improvised and transformative practices. Immanence A concept which seeks to overcome all divisions, dualisms, and c...

Deconstructing Post-Modernism: Gellner and Crocodile Dundee

A paragraph on the negative side of Romanticism, however, is in order, since Romanticism is negative at base: it developed in understandable disillusionment over the excessively optimistic claims of the Enlightenment after the fiasco of the French Revolution and its aftermath. Its discontent was wider than the Enlightenment, however: it was a discontent with civilization as such, as was argued ...

Filters and the First Amendment