A general and wide ranging term applied to many areas of discipline. A particular view of contemporary life that is characterized by the type of society and culture which that has developed in western society.
Post modernist’s attitudes are playful and nostalgia. Modernists are critical and like to define by high and low culture.
Post modernity do not like big narratives. E.g. science, religion the ways of thinking about how the world works.
It is a contradiction to the reception of criticism.
It looks at how we know the world through language. How language is the anchor to our understanding.
Key Concepts:
-Generic blurring
-intertexuality and bricolage
-playfulness/parody/pastiche
-hyperrealist
-Hyperconsciousness
-eclecticism
-death of representation
-uncertainly, loss of context
-intertexuality and bricolage
-playfulness/parody/pastiche
-hyperrealist
-Hyperconsciousness
-eclecticism
-death of representation
-uncertainly, loss of context
Traditional at its best is: meaningful, emotional, engaging.
At its worse: deceptive and sentimental.
Postmodern at its best is: playful, curious, startling.
At its worse: homophobic, detached, nihilistic, sexist, despairing and racist.
Lyotard - rejection of 'grand or meta-narratives', truth needs to be 'deconstructed' so we can challenge the big ideas, be sceptical of the truth.
Baudrillard - there is no longer a distinction between reality and its representing image or simulacrum (a copy of a copy of a copy etc.), hyper reality - there is only surface meaning.
Jameson - Historical viewpoint - postmodern is a development of modernism, PM works are often characterized by lack of depth, PM culture - self referentiality, irony, pastiche and parody.
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