POST-POSTMODERN VERSATILITY
Abstract
The article continues the author’s study of versatility. This time, the actual post-postmodern conceptions by Josh Toth, Jeffrey T. Nealon, Winfried Fluck and others turn out to be tangent. In the conception of the latter, such an important display of versatility is founded in contemporary situation as adversity, caused by an adversary, becomes a defiance and oscillation. But it is precisely this encounter that creates the conditions for the emergence of a whole specter of versions of reality and post-postmodern is considered as a more radical and energetic version of postmodernity. Its amorphous and changeable form allows the human being to change and at the same time remain itself. This pretty well explains the common saying «version of me». In post-postmodern eventuality, the versions of the human being are ordered not by the ethics of perversity, but by the ethics of indecision, which avoids the enforcement to choose only one of the versions, because the specter is always a revenant. However, one should also take into account the caveat that during the intensification of the postmodern in its post-postmodern version, capitalism also intensifies, which in this case reverses into Just-in-Time capitalism, which is dangerous due to the demand to endlessly multiply self-fictions, diversify your portfolio. As a counterbalance to this, the article examines versatility in the context of post-postmodern situationism, in which versatility manifests itself primarily as ludic subversion. Besides, reversion, diversity, overversion and multiversion, inversion, traversion, diversification, verisimilitude, verification, anniversary and other versions of the version, i. e. versatility as such in its manifestations, are considered. In addition, differentiation of variations in philosophy, varieties in art, and variables in science by Gilles Deleuze is used. The article pays special attention to post-postmodern varieties of new realism, in particular scientific or critical, ordinary, speculative realism, dirty realism and white trash aesthetics and ethics, as well as renewalism. This is explained by the post-postmodern passion for the real in its versions after postmodern fictionality. According to Evelien Geerts, it is the traversing of extremes that enables the actualization of the concept of hope
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