The Manifesto of New New Postmodernism in the Genealogy of Art Manifestos
The Manifesto of New New Postmodernism in the Genealogy of Art Manifestos
1. The Futurist Manifesto (1909)
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti praised speed, machines, energy, and even war, proclaiming a radical break with tradition. The future, he claimed, could only be born through the destruction of the past.
Difference with New New Postmodernism: Futurism sought to burn the past, while New New Postmodernism seeks to reassemble the debris of the past into new constellations of meaning.
2. The Dada Manifesto (1916)
Tristan Tzara and others declared meaninglessness, chance, and anti-art in response to the absurdity of war. Dada dismantled value systems and mocked institutions.
Difference with New New Postmodernism: Dada stopped at exposing absurdity, while New New Postmodernism insists on transforming the ruins into networks of testimony.
3. The Surrealist Manifesto (1924)
André Breton elevated the unconscious, dreams, and automatic writing as the sources of a new vision of reality. Surrealism turned inward to explore psychic potential.
Difference with New New Postmodernism: Surrealism focused on the individual unconscious, while New New Postmodernism calls forth the collective unconscious of history—memory, sacrifice, and ruins.
4. The Situationist Manifesto (1960s)
The Situationist International critiqued the spectacle of consumer society and sought to dissolve the boundaries between art and life. They aimed to expose false realities produced by power and capital.
Difference with New New Postmodernism: Situationism dismantled the spectacle, while New New Postmodernism attempts to reconfigure the fragments and scars into new icons of truth.
5. The Manifesto of New New Postmodernism (Kwangmok Son, Marknsol)
New New Postmodernism arises after the universalism of Modernism and the fragmentation of Postmodernism. It begins with debris, sacrifice, language, and the readymade, weaving them into new coordinates.
Like Futurism, it is radical, but instead of destruction, it seeks reassembly.
Like Dada, it questions institutions, but instead of meaninglessness, it creates ethical questions.
Like Surrealism, it makes the invisible visible, but it reveals collective wounds rather than individual dreams.
Like Situationism, it critiques structures of reality, but instead of dismantling spectacle, it establishes icons on ruins.
Conclusion
The Manifesto of New New Postmodernism inherits the lineage of 20th-century manifestos but responds to the conditions of the 21st century—after deconstruction, in a world of ruins and sacrifice.
Where earlier manifestos proclaimed negation and rupture, New New Postmodernism proposes a radical ethics of connection across fragments and scars.
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