Postmodernism is the idea that individuals copy each other to form a similar version of what they are trying to portray and change into a more different style to form a different truth.
- Pastiche = a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
- Parody = a work of art, drama, literature or music that imitates/mocks the work of a previous artist with ridicule or irony.
- Bricolage = Bricolage is a technique or creative mode, where works are constructed from various materials available or on hand, and is often seen as a characteristic of postmodern art practice.
- Intertextuality = can be a reference or parallel to another literary work, an extended discussion of a work, or the adoption of a style.
- Referential
- Surface and style over substance and content
- Metanarrative
- Hyperreality
- Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’)
- Consumerist Society
- Fragmentary Identities – he notion of separating, splitting up and dividing previously homogeneous groups such as, friends, the family, the neighbourhood, the local community, the
- Alienation
- Implosion
- cultural appropriation
- Reflexivity
- Deconstructive postmodernism = expresses the consequences of an idealism that has taken the linguistic turn and then has seen through the language
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there is an argument that postmodern culture is a consumer culture, where the emphasis on style eclipses the emphasis on utility or need. So that ultimately there is no real value to postmodern culture other than the need for consumption. If this is the case, then it is possible to link postmodernist cultural expression with broader shifts in society, specifically around economics and politics. individualism
e creation, development and concentration of high consumption, with a displacement of both consumption and production that has radically altered the nature of societies and individuals living in them. This approach in terms of postmodernism is associated with Fredric Jameson‘s