- Pastiche – Imitating a previous work
- Parody – Imitating a previous work with irony and/or ridicule
- Bricolage
- Intertextuality
- Referential – Containing references to something or (self-referential) to itself
- Surface and style over substance and content
- Metanarrative
- Hyperreality – The inability to distinguish reality from it’s signifiers. Not knowing if something is real.
- Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) – Simulacra are copies that depict things that either have never had an original or no longer have an original.
- Consumerist Society
- Fragmentary Identities
- Alienation
- Implosion
- cultural appropriation
- Reflexivity
Postmodernism is the idea that we all copy previous work to express ourselves, and that new ideas are just a new iteration of previous works.
Parody – “Every woman in this era was called Vera, or Lynn”
Parody – “By calling them on the telephone after breakfast”
Parody – “Despite being Scottish, had an optimistic view of life”
Postmodernism can be understood as deliberate and self-conscious. It works in terms of reiteration, so in the example of The Love Box in your Living Room – it can be seen as a reiteration of the documentary work of Adam Curtis.