Art, Media Design, and Postproduction

The Prefix and Postproduction

This chapter consists of evaluating the ongoing need to label the apparent experience of repetition of cultural variables in new forms, contexts, concepts, and ideas. It examines the deployment of modular complexity and the assemblage gaze across cultural frays in terms of non-linear development, in which the presupposed move towards linear progress is not the result, but rather a form of difference through repetition. The chapter proposes to look past the tendency to place prefixes before the word modernism in order to examine the actual process of signification that makes the cultural loop of naming recursion the foundation of cultural production itself. For this reason, the chapter links modernism to networked ...