A Probably-Unoriginal Bare-Bones Post-Postmodernist Manifesto

If modernism broke everything apart, postmodernism confirmed that we can’t put it back together. 

So where are we now? All we can do is try to make meaningful art in a world we’ve already declared meaningless. 

Note, I said we’ve declared the world meaningless, not found it to be meaningless. The meaning might still be there — but then, it might not be. Our job as post-postmodernist artists is to poke around just in case it exists.

And it’s exasperating, of course, looking for something that might be nonexistent — but it’s the lot we’ve been given. 

How and where to search? That’s the question every artist today must answer for themselves.

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