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{{abstract|A friend and writer explores the importance of Norman Mailer in a world of rapidly changing interpretive and intellectual contexts.}}
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Postmodernism is dead, buried in the rubble of 9/11. So says “The First comprehensive retrospective, Postmodernism — Style and Subversion 1970–1990” at the esteemed Victoria and Albert Museum.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/postmodernism/ |title=Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 - 1990 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=September 2011 |website=Victoria and Albert Museum |publisher= |access-date=2019-02-27 |quote=}}</ref> British writer Alan Kirby concurs in his article “The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond,” published in ''Philosophy Now''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kirby |first1=Alan |date=2006 |title=The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond |url=https://philosophynow.org/issues/58/The_Death_of_Postmodernism_And_Beyond |journal=Philosophy Now |volume=58 |issue=November/December |pages= |doi= |access-date=2019-02-27 }} Reprinted: {{cite book |last=Kirby |first=Alan |chapter=The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond |date=2015 |title=Supplanting the Postmodern: An Anthology of Writings on the Arts and Culture of the Early 21st Century |editor1-last=Rudrum |editor1-first=David |editor2-last=Stavris |editor2-first=Nicholas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AOx1CgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA49&ots=-Iagkowr3-&dq=Alex%20Kirby%20%22The%20Death%20of%20Postmodernism%20and%20Beyond%22&lr&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=New York |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |pages=49–60 |isbn= |author-link= }}</ref> Mailer, I suspect, would not mourn its passing. In fact, one could argue, he anticipated and participated in its demise. In nearly all his thinking, even in those ideas he categorized as “radical conservative,” and certainly in his art, he was remarkably prescient, not only ahead of the curve but defining, delineating, and riding the curve with the verve of a big wave surfer.
Postmodernism is dead, buried in the rubble of 9/11. So says “The First comprehensive retrospective, Postmodernism — Style and Subversion 1970–1990” at the esteemed Victoria and Albert Museum.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/postmodernism/ |title=Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 - 1990 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=September 2011 |website=Victoria and Albert Museum |publisher= |access-date=2019-02-27 |quote=}}</ref> British writer Alan Kirby concurs in his article “The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond,” published in ''Philosophy Now''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kirby |first1=Alan |date=2006 |title=The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond |url=https://philosophynow.org/issues/58/The_Death_of_Postmodernism_And_Beyond |journal=Philosophy Now |volume=58 |issue=November/December |pages= |doi= |access-date=2019-02-27 }} Reprinted: {{cite book |last=Kirby |first=Alan |chapter=The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond |date=2015 |title=Supplanting the Postmodern: An Anthology of Writings on the Arts and Culture of the Early 21st Century |editor1-last=Rudrum |editor1-first=David |editor2-last=Stavris |editor2-first=Nicholas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AOx1CgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA49&ots=-Iagkowr3-&dq=Alex%20Kirby%20%22The%20Death%20of%20Postmodernism%20and%20Beyond%22&lr&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=New York |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |pages=49–60 |isbn= |author-link= }}</ref> Mailer, I suspect, would not mourn its passing. In fact, one could argue, he anticipated and participated in its demise. In nearly all his thinking, even in those ideas he categorized as “radical conservative,” and certainly in his art, he was remarkably prescient, not only ahead of the curve but defining, delineating, and riding the curve with the verve of a big wave surfer.
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