A series of brief essays ranging from a couple of paragraphs to a few pages cast a light on the origins and effects of the place surfaces have assumed in contemporary, postmodern, culture. Fashion, celebrity, movies, lifestyles, and the other major phenomena of postmodern culture all demonstrate the predominating place and role of surfaces in the culture. These essays by an author with a background in philosophy and literature bring to light the essence of postmodernism by weighing its most salient, apparent, features ...
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A series of brief essays ranging from a couple of paragraphs to a few pages cast a light on the origins and effects of the place surfaces have assumed in contemporary, postmodern, culture. Fashion, celebrity, movies, lifestyles, and the other major phenomena of postmodern culture all demonstrate the predominating place and role of surfaces in the culture. These essays by an author with a background in philosophy and literature bring to light the essence of postmodernism by weighing its most salient, apparent, features-namely, the surfaces which both enchant and enclose.
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