Questions for Jae-Part 2

Questions (Harvey: Popular Capitalism and Popular culture)

1)Is postmodernism currently on a decline or just undergoing an evolution? What are the current conditions that give evidence of your opinion?

2)Based on Harvey’s analysis that defines the beginning of major aesthetic movements as occurring during moments of overwhelming space-time compression: is the ‘post-postmdernist’ movement valid? Is this a new moment of space-time compression or What are the societal conditions that have spurred this movement?

3)Can we predict the future through the conditions of the present? (the present is a matrix for the culmination of the future)

4)Harvey highlights some theorists’ predictions on the culmination of the next aesthetic movement: What sort of aesthetic movement would you like to see or think will happen? Is it nostalgic or evolutionary?


Questions (Jameson: Post-moderism and Consumer Society)

1)Can post-modern theory be called theory at all (in the traditional concept)? Or is theory inapplicable to postmodernist design?

2)Does the future of architecture lie within the complete departure from the fundamental notion of framing physical space?

3)Is psychological spatiality (experience of being immersed in space) taking precedence over the traditional concept of physical space (experience of space from a certain distance)?

4)What does the notion of ‘post-modern hyperspace’ mean for architecture? How does it change the tectonic?

5)Can the postmodern movement move beyond perpetual motion and replication towards the notion of creating and end for end’s sake? Is this a desirable goal?