Terry Smith

CONTEMPORANEITY: WORLD CURRENTS (A META-WORLD PICTURE)

CONTINUING MODERNITIES

Globalization, Post-Cold War Hyperpower; Clash of Civilizations, Spectacularity, Neo- conservatism, neoliberal economics, Posthistory, Invented Heritage, Remodernisms

(between these, dialectical oppositionality but only temporary resolutions)

TRANSITIONAL TRANSNATIONALITY

Decolonization; Indigenization; Anti-Orientalist and postcolonial critique, the movement of movements, anti-globalization; Postmodern pastiche, new realisms;

inverse modernizations ( China, Asian “tigers”); revived fundamentalisms; insurrectionary anarchisms; post-Communism

(between these, difference, adjacency, antinomic frictions)

CONTEMPORANEOUS DIFFERENCE
Contemporaneousness of incommensurable master narratives; Self-fashioning within Immediation; cosmopolitanism/planetary existentialism, affiliative connectivity (Occupy), eco activism, open-form revolutions, coeval commons.

TS 11.1.2015