Fredric Jameson died yesterday at the age of 90. He had taught since 1985 at Duke University. His many books include The Political Unconscious, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism ...
Why would a watch collector need or want to understand the notoriously vague and confusing concept of postmodernism? One answer is that watchmaking went through “a postmodern moment” starting in the ...
In our recent meditation on how postmodernism saved the Swiss mechanical watch industry in the 1980s, we noted that from that decade onward, recreating watches from the past (an artistic practice ...