Post-modernism

Post-modernism

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

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