Julie Stephens
Cultural outlaws, political organizers
by Julie Stephens
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One of the least contestable features of postmodernism is its refusal to accept the hierarchy of value and élitism implied in the distinction between high culture and popular culture. In the genealogies frequently circulated, postmodernism is pictured in opposition to two versions of modernism: a modernism codified and conquered by the academy and museum, incorporated as a high cultural artefact precisely because of its disengagement with the popular or commercial; and a modernism which lost its adversary status and entered mainstream chiefly through its contamination by mass production and culture industry. --http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-May-1998/stephens.html [Apr 2005]
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