Post-modernism

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2nd Year Narrative Structures (Post-modernism) Mind Map on Post-modernism, created by Jade Jannotti on 16/01/2014.
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Mind Map by Jade Jannotti, updated more than 1 year ago
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Post-modernism
  1. emerged 1960-80s
    1. style & content are important
      1. Postmodernity = historical phase of late capitalism and globalisation
        1. Postmodernism = styles, modes of representation and critical thinking
          1. rejects fixed representation of reading
            1. requires intertextual knowledge
              1. different meaning for different people at different times
              2. Characteristics
                1. hyperconsciousness - aware of text's cultural status, function, history
                  1. anything can be art
                    1. no longer anything new to produce/distribute
                  2. Styles, signs and images
                    1. eclecticism - customising existing signs
                      1. parody - borrow style, tehcnique
                        1. pastiche - mixing styles
                          1. bricolage - putting together views
                            1. intertextuality - using other texts in 'new' one
                              1. collecticism - drawing from different styles
                                1. hyper reality: technology created realities are better than actual reality
                                  1. Simulacrum (Baudrillard): the copy of a copy
                                  2. Post-modern identity
                                    1. new technology force re-assessment of what it means to be 'human'
                                      1. layers of reality
                                        1. actors play more than one character (real and fake life)
                                      2. distinction between reality and images is blurred
                                        1. media texts challenge reality
                                          1. texts/images never reproduce truth
                                            1. competing versions of truth/reality
                                          2. X Factor: scripted reality, simulation of reality
                                            1. Derrida ()
                                              1. texts incapable of conveying objective truth
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