Notes on Post-conceptual Poetry, by Felix Bernstein

Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry by Felix Bernstein is an aggravated survey of contemporary poetry, art, and criticism; compounded by compulsive archaeological digging in to the relics and ruins of Language poetry, Conceptual poetry, and Felix's own familiar familial corpus. He shows how our Millennial artists (Lady Gaga to Dorothea Lasky), literary movements (Post-Conceptual Poetry to Alt Lit), and political philosophies (Speculative Materialism to Queer Theory), interface with 20th-century aesthetics by revising (through appeals to sincerity, affect, and the great outdoors) and reinforcing (through lingering appeals to irony and the presumed necessity of reductive meme-making and networking) the daunting trifecta of post-structuralism, critical theory, and postmodernism.