NOTES: Origins and Context | See Also
[ X ]
Origins of this content
This is condensed from a 2009 blog post where I interact online with New Yorker dance critic Joan Acocella, criticizing the elasticity of her timeline for postmodernism. If most everyday users do something, can it be post-?
Contextualization
About Vaslav Najinsky: "The expression and beauty of his body, his featherweight lightness and steel-like strength, his great elevation and incredible gift of rising and seeming to remain in the air, and his extraordinary virtuosity and dramatic acting made him a genius of the ballet."[cit]

Christian Compte's YouTube channel Vaslav Nijinsky has short clips of the dancer performing. "These aren't films. They are computer-generated artifacts, made by Christian Comte, a French artist who has a studio in Cannes,"[cit] writes Joan Acocella.

Parody is a key tactic of postmodernism "because it foregrounds quotation and self-referentiality."[cit]
[ X ]
More videos related to the content of this page
Njinsky- l'apres-midi d'un faune-1912
Nijinsky 1990- Jorge Donn
FAUJINSKY

"And then there is 'the postmodernists,' lets call them, who know that Comte's postings are fake but like them anyway." Joan Acocella

On YouTube, these "postmodernists" aren't so special, they are the norm.

On YouTube, the skeptical viewing of fake historical footage isn't "post-" but modern.