A theory to help us understand who we are now and the times that we are living in. – linked to media, photography (other creative things)

A complicated and fragmentary set of inter-relationships, a practice of re-imagination

Pastiche is a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist

Parody is a work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony

New iterations

We live in a society of surface signs

Loss of the metanarrative (we don’t know what the big picture is, we only know small fragments of the story)

BRICOLAGE is a useful term to apply to postmodernist texts as it ‘involves the rearrangement and juxtaposition of previously unconnected signs to produce new codes of meaning’ (Barker & Jane, 2016:237)

Too much of something eventually becomes pointless (excessively saturated by things)

Hyperreality – nothing is real or seems real

Uncertainty – insecurity of knowing or not knowing things

Baudrillard – we live in a hyperreal, simulated reality where we can’t always know what to trust.

There is no real ‘you’ just an idea of what you look like, and people change themselves to look and appear as they want to.