Ch. 12 Postmodern Approaches To Rhetoric

Question 1

Modern Era

Answer 1

sought to provide adequate explanations for social life and offer solutions to the problems humans faced

Question 2

Postmodernism

Answer 2

A time period marked by skepticism for grand narratives, objectivity, and universal truth.

Question 3

Kitsch

Answer 3

Embracing a distasteful or tacky style (art, clothing, furniture, etc.) in an ironically appreciated way.

Question 4

Pastiche

Answer 4

Blending styles together to create new meaning.

Question 5

Symbolic Value

Answer 5

Placing worth on an object based on the status it brings to the owner.

Question 6

Use Value

Answer 6

Placing worth on an object based on how it can serve the owner.

Question 7

Baudrillads Hyperreality

Answer 7

A state of being in which the replica of an object is thought to be more real than the object it replicates.

Question 8

Simulacra

Answer 8

A copy without an original.

Question 9

Jacques Derrida

Answer 9

questioned the stability of meaning, or root assumptions, in
rhetoric and philosophy

Question 10

Deleuze and Guattari

Answer 10

Argued humans are beings that desire in ways consistent with a capitalist society

Question 11

Lyotard

Answer 11

argued that localized knowledge is more useful than grand theories in making political decisions

Question 12

Neocolonialism

Answer 12

new forms of imposing control over other groups, often for the purposes of extraction

Question 13

Culture Jamming

Answer 13

co-opts logos and makes a political comment about the consumer culture in which we live.
* Harold and Kumar Smoking Weed Watching TV

Question 14

Harold

Answer 14

argues that while saying no to consumerism can simply become appropriated for further consumption, pranks, play with, jam, or surf along the waves of capitalist and media logics to reinvent those patterns