Viktoriia Managarova - History from the Zero. Post metamodernism. + CONSTRUCTIVE POSTMODERN / METAMODERN TRANSFORMATIONS Introduction 2017–2018

In this boundless space of total indifference Love has lost its sources and the world divided into a state of unlimited “ emptiness” 4 4 Here it is important to note the book of G. Lipovetsky “Era of emptiness’, which characterizes the space of postmodernism most expressively in this context. See: Lipovetsky G. (2001), Era of Emptiness: An Essay on Modern Individualism, Vladimir Dal Publ., Saint Petersburg, 336 (rus).

The greatness of prior sense were thrown away in various random directions. And cold irony spread around its parts through different islands.

The planet seemed to be reduced to the size of a small point.

And a new historical chapter should have started from that moment.

COULD THE WORLD HISTORY CONTINUE IN PRINCIPLE AFTER THE BIG END OF ALL THINGS? IN WHICH DIRECTION SHOULD EACH HUMAN PASS WITHOUT AN ABSOLUTE DOMINANT IN THE HEART?

The weave of “ Rhizome” 6 6 G.Deleuze, F.Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987 (Introduction: Rhizome), 3—25. made
the existence of any centre impossible.

“ Grand narratives” 7 7 J-F Lyotard. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Machester University Press, 1984, 144 pp. were ruined.

Everything descended into “ deconstruction” 8 8 See J. Derrida, “Of Grammatology’, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, 360 pp. ,
mocking all culture in numerous
anachronistic shifts.

Artist George Condo 9 9 G. Condo, Artworks. See https://www.artsy.net/artist/george-condo created a clown-animal hybrid, displacing Man as a biological entity in his creative interpretation.

John Currin’s 10 10 See selected art of J. Currin: The Guardian, Art and design, November 25, 2016, «John Currin review – meta-painter dances on the knife edge of taste’, https://www.theguardian.com/…/john-currin-review-sadie … depictions of the Man represented the abject state.

We see people with pitchers and boots on heads that turned off themselves as living race. These creatures are floating along the current time without resistance and do not have any strength to move the history forward.

Matthew Barney 11 11 See the sheep face of M.Barney: http://www.itsliquid.com/featured-artist-matthew-barney.html changed his own existence to the existence of “a sheep”.

Artist Tracey Emin 12 12 The Guardian, «Stoned love: why Tracey Emin married a rock’ https://www.theguardian.com/…/tracey-emin-married-rock … married a stone, because of systematic men’s disloyalty in her life.

Postmodern opened human as fiction in all his/her manifestations and made a global “ body without organs”. 13 13 G.Deleuze, F.Guattari. “ANTI-EDIPUS Capitalism and Schizophrenia’, University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis, 1983, 8—16.

J.Baudrillard notes that “ the body was a metaphor for the soul” 14 14 J.Baudrillard.The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena (Verso, 1993), 7. in the past, then it was a metaphor for gender
but today it is “ no longer a metaphor for anything at all” 15 15 Ibid. .
Artificial intelligence has become a new trend, denying alive mind.