Everything at Once

In the postmodern era the conflicts of the present day, from right-wing populism to identity politics, were already in evidence. Spectacular examples from the fields of design, architecture, cinema, pop music, philosophy, art and literature tell of the beginnings of the information society, the unleashing of the financial markets, subcultures, disco, punk, techno-pop, shoulder pads and Memphis furniture. Our present age began in 1967. The belief that the modern age could solve all problems with the same houses, furniture and rights for all was abandoned, and from its ruins emerged a bizarre and eccentric world. Architects declared the amusement park to be the ideal city; designers shook off good taste; self-fulfilment took over from system struggles; and new media synchronized the world. This volume is a standard work on postmodernism, lavishly and generously laid out with illustrations and texts from various disciplines.Artists:Aldo Rossi, Alessandro Mendini, Andy Warhol, Arata Isozaki, Charles Jencks, Charles Moore, Coop Himmelb(l)au, David Byrne, David Hockney, David Lynch, Denise Scott Brown, Donald Barthelme, Donna Haraway, Ed Ruscha, Ettore Sottsass, Félix Guattari, Frank Gehry, Frederic Jameson, Gaetano Pesce, General Idea, Gilles Deleuze, Gustav Peichl, Hans Hollein, Harumi Yamaguchi, J.G. Ballard, Jacques Derrida, James Stirling, James Wines, Jean-Luc Godard, Jenny Holzer, John Landis, John Portman, Judith Butler, Kraftwerk, Leonard Koren, Leslie Fiedler, Linder Sterling, Louise Lawler, Lucinda Childs, Madelon Vriesendorp, Makato Nakamura, Marshall McLuhan, Martin Margiela, Michel Foucault, Nam June Paik, Neville Brody, Nigel Coates, Óscar Tusquets, Oswald Mathias Ungers, Pedro Almodóvar, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, Ricardo Bofill, Richard Rogers, Ridley Scott, Robert Venturi, Robert Wilson, Robert Wyatt, Roland Barthes, Sally Potter, Shin Tamakatsu, SITE, Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Tigerman, Stephen King, Stewart Brand, Studio 65, Sturtevant, Terry Farrell, Thomas Gordon Smith, Thomas Pynchon, Trisha Brown, Van Dyke Parks, Walter Pichler, Werner Rösler, Yellow Magic Orchestra, et al.