Post Modernism:

  • Postmodernism is a way of seeing and understanding the world, yourself and the community at the moment.
  • A good way to think about post-modernism is through music videos.
  • The media is part of understanding the world.
  • Post modernism is characterised by things like copying.
  • Copying can be a way of learning.
  • Referential and referring to things.
  • Parody vs Pastiche.
  • Pastiche is a work of art that imitates an original or work of a previous artist.
  • Parody is a work or performance that imitates another with ridicule or irony.
  • Bricolage is a useful term to apply to postmodernism.
  • It involves rearrangement and juxtaposition.
  • Intertextuality.
  • Surface signs, gestures and play.
  • Shuker.
  • Fragmentary, decentred nature of music videos.
  • There is argument that postmodern culture is a consumer culture, where the emphasis on style eclipses the emphasis on utility or need.
  • Fragmentary consumption.
  • About fragmentation of identity.
  • Alienated fragmented individuals.
  • Jean Baudrillard.
  • The world is imploding in on itself.
  • Simulacrum, not just a representation of the real, but the real itself.
  • Jean-Francois Lyotard.
  • Metanarrative.

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