Postmodernism

  1. Pasticheimitating previous work.
  2. ParodyImitating previous work in a joking and funny manner.
  3. Bricolage – something constructed or created from a diverse range of things.
  4. Intertextualitythe relationship between texts, especially literary ones.
  5. Referentialcontaining or of the nature of references or allusions.
  6. Surface and style over substance and content
  7. Metanarrative
  8. Hyperreality – the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality.
  9. Simulation (termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) 
  10. Consumerist Society
  11. Fragmentary Identities
  12. Alienation
  13. Implosion
  14. cultural appropriation
  15. Reflexivityacknowledging your role in the research.

Postmodernism is the theory that people copy each other everywhere, meaning there is no true form of ourselves.

  • Taking chair away, making the character fall over several times, not professional.
  • “the generals didn’t strike, even though the general strike was named after them”
  • Lord Reith shown singing a rock song.

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