Postmodernism

What is postmodernism?

  1. Pastiche – a piece of art that imitating something previous
  2. Parody – a piece of art that is mocking imitating something previous
  3. Bricolage – something constructed or create from a different diverse range of things
  4. Intertextuality
  5. Referential
  6. Surface and style over substance and content
  7. Metanarrative
  8. Hyperreality
  9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) 
  10. Consumerist Society – a society who are more invested in people buying and consuming different things
  11. Fragmentary Identities
  12. Alienation
  13. Implosion
  14. cultural appropriation
  15. Reflexivity

In this sense, postmodernism works in terms REITERATION, so in the example of The Love Box in your Living Room it is a reiteration of the documentary work by Adam Curtis.

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