{"product_id":"digimodernism-paperback","title":"Digimodernism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Kirby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold new challenge to postmodern theory \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe increasing irrelevance of postmodernism requires a new theory to underpin our current digital culture. Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has taken center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalized postmodernism. Alan Kirby calls this cultural paradigm \u003ci\u003edigimodernism\u003c\/i\u003e, a name comprising both its central technical mode and the privileging of fingers and thumbs inherent in its use. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with the Internet (digimodernism's most important locus), then taking into account television, cinema, computer games, music, radio, etc., Kirby analyzes the emergence and implications of these diverse media, coloring our cultural landscape with new ideas on texts and how they work. This new kind of text produces distinctive forms of author and reader\/viewer, which, in turn, lead to altered notions of authority, 'truth' and legitimization. With users intervening physically in the creation of texts, our electronically-dependent society is becoming more involved in the grand narrative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo clarify these trends, Kirby compares them to the contrasting tendencies of the preceding postmodern era. In defining this new cultural age, the author avoids both facile euphoria and pessimistic fatalism, aiming instead to understand and thereby gain control of a cultural mode which seems, as though from nowhere, to have engulfed our society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith new technologies unfolding almost daily, this work will help to categorize and explain our new digital world and our place in it, as well as equip us with a better understanding of the digital technologies that have a massive impact on our culture.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Kirby is a writer and researcher in twentieth-century literature and culture. He has published on subjects including Stephen Poliakoff, John Fowles, spy fiction, and James Joyce. He received his PhD from the University of Exeter and is currently based in Oxford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42118887800967,"sku":"9781441175281","price":66.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/c6e9dc20116e57eb7dfb4a71d70d5675.webp?v=1732537153","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/digimodernism-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}