DEFINITIONS
Copy: where you make the same (replicate) thing that’s already been created.
Pastiche: Something that looks like or imitates something else.
Bricolage: involves the change of juxtaposition of previously unconnected signs which produces new codes of meaning.
Intertextuality: Shaping a text’s meaning by a different text.
Implosion: The fall of a system.
Cultural Appropriation: inappropriately adapting a culture into ones own/ different culture.
Simulacrum: A simulation of reality
Hyperreality: When a simulation is more realistic than reality.
Metanarrative: Narratives that have an historical meaning, experience, or knowledge allowing the completion of an overall master idea.
Parody: Making fun of a piece of work made by someone else by recreating it.
Consumerist Society: A type of society where people devote a great deal of their life to “consuming”.
Reflexivity: The evaluation of a person’s own beliefs, judgments and practices.
Intertextuality: signs that only have reference to other signs.
PARODY VS PASTICHE
Pastiche is a piece of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that copy’s the work of a previous artist. Instead, a Parody is a work or performance that copy’s another work or performance with ridicule or irony to make fun of it.
FRAGMENTARY CONSUMPTION = FRAGMENTARY IDENTITIES
This process of fragmented consumption separating, splitting up and dividing previously homogeneous groups such as, friends, the family, the neighborhood, the local community, the town, the county, the country and importantly, is often linked to the process of fragmented identity construction.
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard describes as IMPLOSION which gives rise to what he terms SIMULACRA. The idea that although the media has always been seen as a representation of reality – a simulation, from Baudrillard’s perspective of implosion, it is has become more than a representation or simulation and it has become SIMULACRUM not just a representation of the real, but the real itself, a grand narrative
Habermas
He traces the decline in the public sphere identified already in this process through a range of societal shifts: the increased globalisation of economic trade, the transformation of citizens into consumers, the increase in digital communication technologies, the dominance of a small economic elite over global economic, political and cultural exchange