Pastiche – a work of art or other visual project that imitates the style or character of the work of another artist.

Parody – a jokey version of something usually used to imitate or make fun of an original work.

Bricolage – the construction of different texts which forms one new text.

Intertextuality – the shaping of a text’s meaning by another text

Metanarrative – a narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge.

Hyperreality – the inability to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality. Often seen in the media eg in TV when the reality being portrayed is not real.

Simulacrum – something that replaces reality with its representation.

Consumerist Society – a society in which people devote lots of time, energy and thought to ‘consuming’. The general view is that consumption is good and the more there is the better.

Fragmentary Identities – the idea that you can have different identities online and in real life.

Implosion –

Cultural Appropriation – the idea of taking aspects of one culture into another. eg. art, rituals, behaviour, music, style.

Reflexivity – the examination of one’s own beliefs. Thinking about your own thoughts.