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Post-Modernism VocabularyModernism - correct answer The Modernist period is defined as the period during and after World War I, during which a perceptual void existed in human society and in order to fill this gap, literary greats such as Picasso began to use art, literature, and music as a manner in which to fill this void and draw attention away from the destruction. Postmodernism - correct answer The Post-Modernist period is defined as the period after WWII, directly after the modernist period when writers, artists, and musicians alike began to realize that the concept of taking art forms too seriously led to over idealization by people such as Hitler and Mussolini. Henceforth, the postmodern period attempted to make literature a much more playful and carefree concept rather than using it to fill the void. To explore creativity and not worry about trying to save the world with literature. Nietzsche's Superman - correct answer The concept of the ubermensch created by Nietzsche. To nietzsche, the ubermensche represented the man who had enough strength and intelligence to be able to walk on the tight-rope across the top of the void and look down into it without being sucked into it. Jean-Francois Lyotard - correct answer French post-structuralist philosopher, best known for his highly influential formulation of postmodernism in The Postmodern Condition. Lyotard's writings cover a large range of topics in philosophy, politics, and aesthetics, and experiment with a wide variety of styles. His works can be roughly divided into three categories: early writings on phenomenology, politics, and the critique of structuralism, the intermediate libidinal philosophy, and later work on postmodernism and the "differend." The majority of his work, however, is unified by a consistent view that reality consists of singular events which cannot be represented accurately by rational theory. Discourse - correct answer Postmodern discourse theory seeks to politicise post-structuralist theory and combine this with cultural analysis in order to show how rationality and social forms are underpinned by power. It employs a sophisticated synthesis of themes taken from Derrida, Foucault and Lacan (among others) which is representative of a wide range of postmodern theory today. Heterogeneity - correct answer consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature => A central theme for post modernist theory, the concept of which we observe the differences among others Heterodoxy - correct answer any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position => The concept of the micronarrative and not following societal circumstances Metanarrative - correct answer Explanatory, over-arching thought processes that determine a manner in which to live your life. What is known to be the discussion of everything. One of the foremost examples of this is the Bible and Christianity as a mode in which to live including things such as politics. Micronarrative - correct answer Plurivocal swirl of equal and overlapping voices. The idea that everyone has an equal voice in everything. Instead of marginalizing people who do not conform, micro-narratives allow for everyone to embrace their own ideas instead of having to connect with a certain way of living. Performativity - correct answer Previously used as a metaphor for theatricality, performance is now often employed as a heuristic principle to understand human behaviour. The assumption is that all human practices are 'performed', so that any action at whatever moment or location can be seen as a public presentation of the self. This methodological approach entered the social sciences and humanities in the 1990s but is rooted in the 1940s and 1950s. Underlying the performative turn was the need to conceptualize how human practices relate to their contexts in a way that went beyond the traditional sociological methods that did not problematize representation. Avant-garde - correct answer The concept of something being new and revolutionary in concept. Kitsch - correct answer ... Indeterminacy - correct answer ... Referent - correct answer ... Signifier - correct answer ... Lisable - correct answer ... Scriptable - correct answer ...