Post Modernism the useful bits

Postmodernism

The useful bits

Image Rich

Culture.

End of Grand

Narratives.

Fractured Identity.

Intertextuality.

Image Rich

Representations dominate

Simulacra; everything is

a copy.

Hyperreality

Style over Substance

Boundaries between high

culture and popular culture no longer fixed.

Fractured Identity

Certainties of class, gender, place fading

Globalisation and the Internet.

Ethnicity, race, sexuality age recognised as

significant

Emphasis on lifestyle

means identity is dynamic

End of Grand

Narratives

Decline of Traditional

Religion

Relative Truth

Political Cynicism

Science and Technology

fallible.

Authority is untrustworthy

Marxism, Capitalism are flawed

Morality is Personal

Intertextuality

Irony and the

knowing audience

Play

Pastiche

Bricolage

Postmodernism at the V&Ahttp://vimeo.com/32207784

Koyaanisqatsihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz_R2y1oAzw

Moe talks about Postmodernismhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdO9orWQ-Nk&feature=related

Wayne’s World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN_VgVEZD0k&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLCC0C06A86EB27083