Postmodernism: Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. It is the idea that we copy previous work to express ourselves, and that new ideas are just a new reiteration of previous works.
Key Words:
- Pastiche: Imitating another piece of work
- Parody: To re-create something with intention to mock/take the mick to create a comedic effect.
- Bricolage: A French term that translates to ‘do-it-yourself’. The idea looks at how to create art from any materials that are available.
- Intersexuality:
- Referential:
- Surface and style over substance and content:
- Metanarrative:
- Hyperreality: finding it difficult to differentiate reality from a simulation of reality.
- Simulation: Imitation of a Situation
- Consumerist Society: similar to materialistic – someone who buys things that the often don’t need but buy them because there is value in having many things.
- Fragmentary Identities: The idea that we often construct different identities dependant on where we are, who we are with etc. This is fragmented.
- Alienation: The idea that we are disassociated to the world we live in.
- Implosion: The idea that meaning is now meaningless. Due to a combination of signs within society.
- Cultural Appropriation: Taking properties and characteristics from other cultures and appropriating them to another.
- Reflexivity:
“The Love Box in Your Living Room” is a parody but also a pastiche as it reiterates the work of Adam Curtis’ work. It is considered a ‘mock-umentary.’
Examples:
-Labour party leader is not called ronald mcdonald
– Doctor Who characters ‘Darleks‘ terminate children for misbehaving