What is Post-postmodernism?

After going through all the readings, I am just as confused about the idea of Post-postmodernism as when I began. I am not quite sure what it looks like, but I found a few outside sources that have helped me to understand it a little better. This new movement is hard to define because we are essentially living in it right now, and we have no hindsight. Post-postmodernism surfaced as a critique to postmodernism irony, but what exactly does a Post-postmodernist world look like?

John Rajcham explains that Post-postmodernism has surfaced becuase Postmodernism has failed. In The Lightness of Theory , he states that, "It was as though theory had become too heavy - top-heavy with its own self-impotance - having lost the will or ability to look with fresh eyes for what was read or singual or creative of new movement possiblities" (Rajchman, 389). I think that what he is saying is that this era will allow us the freedom to not only do what we want, but to be inpsired by all the things that have come before us. We should do away with the rules and theories and just focus on the spiritual aspects of things. Thinking like this will and has brought us and art to a whole new level. In order to experience this new movement "we need to stop 'thinking' so as to start again to see what we can't yet describe since we think too much" (Rajchman, 393). I feel as though Post-postmodernism is very contradictory in that it says we need to stop thinking, but also that we need to keep thinking? Post-postmodernism asks us to "invent ourselves" (Rajchman 393). On a different note, I think one way we can define Post-postmodernism is through pop culture. British scholar Alan Kirby came up with the term pseudo-modernism which portrays Post-postmodernism in a negative light. He basicallys says that Post-postmodernism is uneccesseary and "ingnorant" (Wikipedia). He belives that "pseudo-modernisms 'typical intellecutal states' are futhermore described as being 'ignorance, fanaticism and anxiety' and it is said to produce a 'trance-like state' in those participating in it" (Wikipedia). An example of this would be reality TV. Completely unnecessary, yet continue to watch it.

In conclusion, I feel as though Post-postmodernism can just be whatever it wants to be. There is no real definition for it because it does not follow theory or even rationale. Maybe in a few years we will have a better grasp on what exactly a Post-postmodernist world looks like.

Bibliography:
Wikipedia. Post-postmodernism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism. April 13, 2010.

Rajchman, John. "The Lightness of Theory". Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985. Blackwell Publishing. 2007. pg 389, 393.