Everything, All the Time, Everywhere - Stuart Jeffries (PB) collage WELCOME TO THE FOOD CIRCUS

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Beatrice von Bismarck considers the field of activity and knowledge that relates to the exhibiting of art and culture

“A Cookbook” contains densely decorated pages with patterned designs

is there space for emancipatory ways of knowing

but opens up new explorations for a critical visual culture

Everything, All the Time, Everywhere - Stuart Jeffries (PB) collage WELCOME TO THE FOOD CIRCUSPostmodernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface, postmodernism had a dirty secret: it was the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism. It was the forcing ground of post truth, by means of which western values were turned upside down. But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In this brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries