- 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 = (in art or literature) construction or creation from a diverse range of available things
- Intertextuality = can be a reference or parallel to another literary work, an extended discussion of a work, or the adoption of a style.
- Referential
- Surface and style over substance and content
- Metanarrative
- 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
- Reflexivity= the fact of someone being able to examine their own feelings, reactions, and motives
- Deconstructive postmodernism = expresses the consequences of an idealism that has taken the linguistic turn and then has seen through the language
Postmodernism: The rework and copy of other works that may or may not be adapted to differ slightly. An emphasis on ideologies as a motive to maintain political power.
An intellectual stance or mode of discourse which challenges worldviews associated with Enlightenment rationality dating back to the 17th century. Postmodernism is associated with relativism and a focus on ideology in the maintenance of economic and political power.
“in this era every women were called vera or lyn”
cellotape on mouths 18:44
lord reith big eyebrows making fun
Where there is marks may we bring spencers
Margaret Thatcher played as a man
Postmodernism notes
Postmodernism can therefore be understood (more than other creative movements) as deliberate, intended, self-conscious play (about play?), signs about signs, notes to notes? Often, this may be frivolous, trite, casual, surface, throw-away. It may even be ironic, joking, or literally, ‘just playing’. However, it is always a deliberate copy (of the old). Therefore, the old has been re-worked into something new, which clearly entails a recognition (a nod and a wink) to what it was and where it came from.
argument that postmodern culture is a consumer culture, where the emphasis on style eclipses the emphasis on utility or need. So that ultimately there is no real value to postmodern culture other than the need for consumption
Putting it very simply, the transition from substance to style is linked to a transition from production to consumption.