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Is that all postmodernism had to offer? The writers of In Memoriam to Postmodernism are already nailing down its coffin, offering "avant-pop" in its place as a meeting-point of popular culture and the avante garde. Their enthusiasm is infectious, the writing mostly innovative and high quality, and their observations on hypertext and a spectrum of pop-culture insightful. Despite the editors’ insistence on "no mo po mo", however, it seems like a slight modification of postmodernism, glossed up with a new label. Their criticism of mainstream media’s "neutralizing or neutering of pomo’s potentially liberating effects" (Amerika and Olsen, "Electronic Dispatches") is well-placed, but I argue that postmodernism is still alive - is still, in fact, being born.

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