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Feb192008

Christian Bök on the post-avant

'I might even argue that, just as the prefix "neo-" (when grafted onto the name of an artistic movement) no longer means "novel," but "retro," so also does the prefix "post-" no longer imply an advancement beyond, or even an abandonment of, a past idea for a better future—instead, the prefix now signifies something like: "more of the same—only worse.…"'

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