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PostmodernismPostmodernism historical background - correct answer Postmodernism: refers to changes in the social and economic conditions that help to produce these styles and ways of being a subject. Response to late capitalism (1960s). tied to shifts of the demise of the nation-state, dissolution of national sovereignty, skeptical embrace of science and technology in the wake of Holocaust/nuclear bombing of Japan, which showed how scientific ideas could be turned against humankind and toward acts of unthinkable violence. Promotion of trade liberalization in a world increasingly characterized by eleven global flows of money, goods and people. Mobility, changeability, and flow rather than truth and universality. Globalization and global flows - correct answer in postmodernism, globalization is driven by communication technology, economics, and locales of production. this economy of flexible accumulation is characterized by neoliberalism and dislocation. enhanced flows of information and people in post modernism has led to a response in which people are imagining new ways of making community, new ways of having local and global involvement with humanitarian issues as social movements and news ways to show respect for otherness. Dissolution of boundaries of the nation-state - correct answer We have expanded globally which means that the nation-state is responsible for the wellbeing of more than itself and must address that responsiblity. Corps don't identify either. Boundaries are global w/ exporting of cultural goods. Speeding up culture - correct answer through the use of more developed information and digital technologies, society and culture becomes accelerated and speed in the manner that we deal and interact with information -lead to shorter attention span for digital generations because of expectations for quicker results. Age of schizophrenia - correct answer Our identity changes just as quickly as our children and everything assembles around us at a great speed. It's the age of fragmented identity, attention span and life itself. You can't track point A to point B. Baudrillard and simulation, simulacra and hyperreal - correct answer Simulation: the collapse between counterfeit and real, and the original and the copy that exists in a culture that had become strongly organized around digitial technologies. Simulacra: hyperreal identities with no recourse back to a real person, their composite media image being more than real. Hyperreal results because we have produced ourselves out of realty, therefore we live within a constant simulation. A copy of a copy of a copy - correct answer Refers to the idea that we have produced ourselves out of the real/reality and live within a simulated hyperreality of reflexivity and intertexuatily. Simulation as supposed to representation - correct answer Baudrillard describes the late 20th century as a time when images becamemore real than the real, creating a hyperreality in which simulation replaced reprodcution and representation. Simulacra standing on its own - correct answer Simulacra stands on its own w/o requiring recourse to real objects or worlds elsewhere. Questioning metanarrative - pluralism of narratives - correct answer Becauase of a criss of universality and cultural authority, there is a profound questioning of the foundations of truth that made up the modernist era. It's central goal is to question all assumptions to reveal the values that underlie all systems of thought and thus to question the ideologies that are seen as natural. The surface as a critical point of analysis - correct answer You cannot occupy a position outside that which we analyze; we cannot go beneath the surface to find something more real or more true. Irony as a weapon - correct answer PM emphasizes irony and particupation in low or popular culture. Irony refers to a deliberate contradition between the literal or dominant meaning of something its intended meaning (which can be the opposite of the meaning). Irony can be derived from contexts in which appearance and reality are in conflict. Intertextuality - correct answer The referencing of one text within another in a reflexive fasion. PM assumes that the viewer knows the cultrual products being referenced. Reflexivity - correct answer the text refers to its own means of production, undermines the illusion or fantasy aspects of the narrative, encouraging the viewer to be a critical thinker about the ideology conveyed by the narrative. This results, in a postmodern sense, as a form of intellectual play without significant critical or political message beneath the reflexive joke. Identity as a performance - correct answer identity is fragmented, pluralistic and multifaceted. Also identity is constructed through performance.