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Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social relations, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier times. All fixed, fast-frozen relationships, with their train of venerable ideas and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become obsolete before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned . . .

-- Marx & Engels

Postmodernism

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Introduction: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge," 1979:

Umberto Eco, “Semiotic Guerilla Warfare,” from Travels in Hyperreality,
Baudrillard, "The Ecstasy of Communication," from Hal Foster (ed.) The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, Port Townsend, WA: Bay Press, 1983, pp. 126-134; http://www.uvm.edu/bhreserves/soc/baudrillardts295.pdf

Excerpts from Frederick Jameson, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,
Mike Davis, “Fortress LA,” from City of Quartz.

Cultural Studies

Humanities 301, Spring 2009, UVM