Re-imagining, pastiche, parody, copy, bricolage.
Intertexuality – surface signs, gestures and play. Signs only have meaning in reference to other signs.
Surfaces and style become the most important defining features of the mass media and popular culture.
Richard Hoggart – Uses of Literacy (1959) noted the shift in modern societies particularly the impact on our “neighborhood lives.”
Postmodern culture focuses on consumption hence the reason why society is more displaced.
Another key characteristic of postmodernism is the developed of fragmented, alienated individuals living (precariously) in fragmented societies.
- Pastiche – imitate the style of an artist
- Parody – imitate the style of an artist with a comic effect
- Bricolage – diverse range of things
- Intertextuality – relationship between texts
- Metanarrative – a narrative account that experiments with or explores the idea of storytelling
- Hyperreality – inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality
- Simulacrum – an image or representation of someone or something
- Conumerist Society – people devote a great deal of time, energy, resources and thought to “consuming”
- Implosion –
- cultural appropriation
- Reflexivity