POSTMODERNISM by Clare D

clareswhere — 2013-05-13 19:05:39 UTC

Simulacra

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A copy of a copy

Pastiche

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Imitation of various styles and art forms, the idea that nothing is original.

Meta-narrative

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are ideas and theories that arrogantly claim to offer total, all embracing answers

Definition-

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Postmodernism is a term which describes the postmodernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements. It is in general the era that follows Modernism.^[1] It frequently serves as an ambiguous overarching term for skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism. It is often associated with deconstruction and post-structuralism because its usage as a term gained significant popularity at the same time as twentieth-century post-structural thought.

Bricolage

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Art technique where works are constructed from various available materials ("found items" or mass-produced "junk")

Derrida and Barthes

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believes that a signifier has no direct relationship to a signified. Therefore the world is made up of slippery signs which can mean anything

Loss of the real - The truman show

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Jean Baullrillard uses the term simulacra or stimulation to describe how the modern world is ruled by images.

'Images precede the real'

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George Orwell - 1984

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Hyperreality

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Hyperreality is a way of characterizing what our consciousness defines as "real" in a world where a multitude of media can radically shape and filter an original event or experience. Hyperreality is seen as a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are seamlessly blended together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins.

Postmodernism

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is subjective not universal truth.

It is to do with the belief that society is always changing

Death of the Author

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According to Barthes, it is the reader who creates meaning in a text. "Death of the author" at the expense of the reader

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george orwell 1984 trailer

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