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The current volume brings together a collection of essays from the conference ""The Postmodern Condition: Forty Years Later"" held at University of Genova on December 2019. Taking advantage of the fortieth anniversay of The Postmodern Condition by Jean-François Lyotard, a book that initiated the cultural explosion of postmodern philosophy, in order to relaunch and further investigate the ongoing debate around the essential meaning of postmodernity, the end of postmodernism and the advent of new aesthetics, philosophy and social ""structure of feelings"" that have (or tried to) overcome the postmodern paradigm. The book thus brings together two interwoven but often separated themes: on the one hand, the analysis of the vitality, legacy, topicality and historicizing process of postmodernity and postmodernism; on the other, the analysis of the debate around the crisis of the postmodern paradigm and of the advent of new conceptual frameworks, often born out of a direct refusal of postmodern critical discourse and philosophy. Through the filters of different philosophical and aesthetic paradigms, the book thus offers a complex description of contemporary society from the 1980s down to the present moment, dwelling on crucial topics such as the relationship between humanity and technology, the digital revolution, the social role of representations, the dialectics between image and reality, and the vitality of postmodern stylistic features (quotation, metafiction, appropriation etc.).

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Elisa Bricco is Director of the Department of Modern Languages and Culture at the University of Genova. Her studies specialize in the French novel, theatre and poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries. Over the past two decades she has researched the narrative and paratexual strategies of the French novel; the relationship between contemporary writing and the postmodern paradigm; the place and the role of the author in contemporary society; the role of art in literature and cross-media creative dynamics. Luca Malavasi is Associate Professor at the University of Genova, where he teaches Film History, Film Criticism and Visual Culture. His interests focus on the theory of images and the history of contemporary cinema. He has a series of essays and monographs on postmodernity, postmodern movies and their directors. He is part of the editorial committee of the journals “La Valle dell'Eden” and “Cineforum”.

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