postmodernism

  1. Pastiche = A copy that could be art, literature or tv, in a serious way
  2. Parody = Something that mocks art, literature or the media, made for comedy purposes
  3. Bricolage  =  a technique or creative mode, where works are constructed from various materials available or on hand
  4. Intertextuality = a reference or parallel to another literary work, an extended discussion of a work, or the adoption of a style.
  5. Referential = relating to a referent, in particular having the external world rather than a text or language as a referent
  6. Surface and style over substance and content =
  7. Metanarrative = a narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience, or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a master idea.
  8. Hyperreality = hyperreality captures the inability to distinguish “The Real” from the signifier of it. This is more prominent in technologically advanced societies.
  9. Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) =
  10. Consumerist Society =  one in which people devote a great deal of time, energy, resources and thought to “consuming”. The general view of life in a consumerist society is consumption is good, and more consumption is even better
  11. Fragmentary Identities =  is an multidisciplinary collaboration, involving visual communication, performative arts and fashion. It is an exploration of the fragmentation and reconstruction of identity in the modern age, and its effects on the relationships between individuals.
  12. Alienation =  is a person’s feeling of disconnection from a group – whether friends, family, or wider society – to which the individual has an affinity.
  13. Implosion = consumer age of information, media, and mass media has ushered in an accelerated and coercive hyperproduction of meaning and information to the “irrational” and “terroristic” extent that all meaning
  14. cultural appropriation = Cultural appropriation is the inappropriate or unacknowledged adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity
  15. Reflexivity = eflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect, especially as embedded in human belief structures

parody – “in this era every women were called vera or lyn”

parody – the story of the boy raised by the dingoes

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