1st Edition

Navigating the Postmodern Condition The Discontinuities of Everyday Life

By Wade A. Tillett Copyright 2024
120 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

120 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

120 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Drawing on poststructuralist frameworks, this book examines the way to a radical acceptance of daily discontinuities and difference as it allows us to embrace life in the postmodern world. With each chapter exploring the human relationship with a disjunction in daily life, such as sleeping, forgetting, and multitasking, the author examines overlooked aspects of daily living as fresh data from... Read more

Introduction  Part I: Escaping Through Fractures  1. Lose  2. Escape  3. Break  Part II: Reclaiming What is lost  4. Conjure  5. Exceed  6. Embrace  Part III: Multiplication of the Real  7. Hesitate 8. Doubt  9. Divide  10. Make  11. Double  Part IV: Claiming the Lack  12. Desire  13. Claim  14. Empty  Part V: Multiplication of the Self  15. Swirl  16. Become  17. Change  Part VI: The View from the Spirits of Gaps  18. Slip

Biography

Wade A.Tillett is Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA.