This Is Not New: Art, Culture, and the Promise of Change

by David Balzer

What does it mean to call something 'new'? Why is Western culture, even after postmodernism, still so obsessed with the concept? What are the political consequences of relying on this culture to bring about social change?

In this provocative book, David Balzer argues that Western culture was never designed to produce truly new or original artefacts. Rather, the West moves from fixation to fixation, trend to trend--a cycle of creation and destruction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745342701
• ISBN13: 9780745342702
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 176 Pages