After Post-Modernism

After Post-modernism, and the deconstruction of form, realness, and meanings, how can theory continue to be valid? How can we encourage the expansion of art theory? Have we taken pure thought too far, to the point of its demise? Has everything been thought and theorized?
There is a need for a "lightness" of understandings, so that we can move forward and create new theories and continue to explore and experiment. "One has to be very light to drive one's will to knowledge into such a distance and, as it were, beyond one's time, to create for oneself eyes to survey millennia and, moreover, clear skies in these eyes" (Rajchman, 394). A theorist must disregard past theories and understandings, forever examining the world with fresh eyes and nurturing their creative mind, being open and susceptible to new perspectives. After all, art and theory live in the "resistance against both form and institution"(Rajchman, 391) and in possibility.

John Rajchman, "The Lightness of Theory" (Kocur and Leung, 388-394)