/lit/ - Literature

Why can't we just go back to good old materialism?

>>7929281

Sup /lit/erati,

I'm doing a course on Postmodernism, I've never done any actual Philosophy only course so I figure I better do extra reading to get as much as I can out of it and to get a good grade.

I'm supposed to write a 10 page essay on some aspect of Post-modernism or an influential post-modern thinker.

Any ideas on someone interesting that I could focus on? Any good books or essays that you think I should read?

Here is the compulsory minimum reading list I have from my course:

Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
Heidegger, Introduction II to Being and Time
Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization
and What is Enlightenment?
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
Emmanuel Levinas, -God, Death, and Time; Basic Philosophical Writings
Derrida. Of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and On Forgiveness
Frederick Jameson, Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (part 1)
Barthes Mythologies
Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
Judith Butler, Undoing Gender
Slavoj Zizek, You May!

I'm not asking you to do my homework for me or something, just looking for possible topics that I might not be aware of seeing as I'm completely new to the topic. I've got ages to write the paper so I'm just looking to do some good research.

How does one lube himself up for postmodernist literature? I mean, what would I read to prepare myself for say, Gravitys Rainbow or Ulysses? I'm reading Infinite Jest right now, but its really easy. The only hard part of it is keeping track of character relations and time lines.

What is some good entry level postmodern literature?

>>6777194
Because people become boring, aimless, without any self-orientation influenced by their suroundings, like in any natural human society. Without any of that, left with just themselves as their own refference point for morality, education and visions, they regress at the most basic human functions. Eat, drink, have sex, die. Now imagine all of western society behaving this way, it made things stagnate as we see them today.

There's no more refference points you can orientate yourself in life. Traditional family unit is gone, traditional society is gone, nationalism is gone.
Anything "moving" nowadays in terms of intellectual currents is just constantly challenging and deconstruction already pre-established things.

So Modernism stemmed out of WWI and was concerned with the effects of an industrial society on the people. Writers of this movement: Joyce, Faulkner, T.S. Eliot

Then what sparked Postmodernism and what the fuck is it concerned about? Who are the great writers of postmodernism?