Varia: The Century’s Zero Cycle. The Explosive Style of the 2000s Cover Image

Varia: Zerowy cykl stulecia. Eksplozja – wybuchowy styl lat 2000
Varia: The Century’s Zero Cycle. The Explosive Style of the 2000s

Author(s): Michaił Epsztejn
Contributor(s): Katarzyna Syska (Translator)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: traditional post-modernism; The Century’s Zero Cycle; post-WTC cultural

Summary/Abstract: Announcing the end of traditional post-modernism, characterised by supposedly meaningless plays on signs and infinite intertextual exchanges, the article offers an attempt to critically appropriate the post-WTC cultural condition by referring to a number of metaphorical cultural explosions which narrate the end of the post-modern era. The explosions in question are related to both real-life terrorist threats as well to the explosive growth of science and technology, which, in the long run, are likely to redefine fundamental social premises along the lines of trans-culturalism.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 129-137
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish