John Docker Boeken

In this provocative study, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes a guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of structuralism and poststructuralism, and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. It ranges widely, from theoretical discussion to consideration of everything from architecture, television and detective writing to Sydney's monorail. The book engages with some of the most important debates of our time, combining polemical force with intellectual rigor, and reclaims popular culture from the forces opposed to it.

The narrative explores John Docker's upbringing in Bondi, shaped by his Communist parents—his Jewish mother from London's East End and his Irish father. Rather than a typical beachside paradise, Docker's Bondi is depicted as a vibrant hub of immigrant experiences and political engagement, reflecting the complexities of identity and heritage in his formative years.