Jacob presents an excerpt from his commentary in the new Architecture Design Magazine which he's calling, "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Post Modernism.":
"The argument here is that it was a grave error for Post Modernism to allow itself to be cast as a style rather than an attitude and that beyond the most superficial of glances there was a far more complex, ambitious and politicised project."
Jacob argues that the conditions of the 21st century, particularly the Internet, have flattened out the arc of history:
"Post-Modernism's pluralism – once radical – has been co-opted as free market choice. The effects of fully fledged neo-liberal capitalism on our physical, social and economic landscapes is profound and disorientating. In the wake of such pretzel logics as credit default swaps – the standard-bearing instrument of deregulated, dematerialised financial product – we might add confusion to Post-Modernism's complexity and contradiction."
