• Individual and community alienation Individualistic / isolated narrative
• Results in individuals becoming isolated and vulnerable
• So individuals on focus on (understand, can cope with, are knowledgeable about) surface and style. As opposed to substance, content, cohesion, meaning, truth.
• Individual personal pleasure and gain is the only significant motivating factor
• A disconnection between cerebral and physical (ie mind and body Descartes – The Cartesian dilemma)
• creates a world built around uncertainties and half-truths = a virtual world

STRUCTURE(9 marker)

first define/explain postmodernism

then define the key concepts and who said them

after that mention the print product and how it relates to the key concepts.(Futuristic, dystopia, individualism, escapism)

lastly, express thoughts on postmodernism itself.

Simulation-when reality is replaced with signs and representations.

hyperreality- where audiences cant tell the difference between simulation and reaslity