- Pastiche = a work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
- Parody = an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
- Bricolage = the process of improvisation in a human endeavour
- Intertextuality = can be a reference or parallel to another literary work, an extended discussion of a work, or the adoption of a style.
- Referential= of, containing, or constituting a reference
- Surface and style over substance and content= although someone looks immaculately dressed or styled, behind the façade, there is no substance or content.
- Metanarrative= concerns narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge and offers legitimation of such through the anticipated completion of some master idea
- Hyperreality= the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality
- Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’)
- Consumerist Society= a society in which people often buy new goods, especially goods that they do not need, and in which a high value is placed on owning many things.
- Fragmentary Identities= multidisciplinary collaboration, involving visual communication, performative arts and fashion
- Alienation= a withdrawing or separation of a person or a person’s affections from an object or position of former attachment
- Implosion= a situation in which something fails suddenly and completely, or the fact of this happening
- Cultural appropriation= an inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society.
- Reflexivity= the fact of someone being able to examine their own feelings, reactions, and motives
- Deconstructive postmodernism = deconstructionism is a challenge to the attempt to establish any ultimate or secure meaning in a text.
Postmodernism can therefore be understood (more than other creative movements) as deliberate, intended, self-conscious play (about play?), signs about signs, notes to notes?
It may even be ironic, joking, or literally, ‘just playing’. However, it is always a deliberate copy (of the old).
clearly entails a recognition (a nod and a wink) to what it was and where it came from.
INDIVIDUALISM’
, it may be possible to identify the extent to which our economic experience is now characterised by what we buy (consumption) than what we make (production).
there is an argument that postmodern culture is a consumer culture
the extent to which the UK and much of Western Europe has shifted from manufacturing economies to consuming economies – ie we are structured around consuming things more than making things.
it is possible to link postmodernist cultural expression with broader shifts in society, specifically around economics and politics.