Modernism / Postmodernism

Question 1

Gustav Le Bon

Answer 1

Destruction of beliefs

• modernist

Question 2

Max Nordau

Answer 2

Severe mental epidemic… nervous instability

• modernist

Question 3

O’Connor

Answer 3

To create a vantage point from which the last and future are equally viable

• modernist

Question 4

In his article on postmodernism, how does Nasrullah Mambrol differentiate between modernism and post modernism?

Answer 4

“To establish the primacy of order, modernism creates the concept of disorder… postmodernism dismisses the binary opposition between order and disorder by suggesting that everything is disordered”

Question 5

How is reality interpreted in modernism versus postmodernism?

Answer 5

In modernism, language is a tool to represent reality

In postmodernism there are only surfaces, no depth. No reality to represent and no objective truth to signify

Question 6

How does Frederick Jameson describe the postmodern world?

Answer 6

Describes the post modern world as being in the third stage of capitalism, focusing on consumer capitalism, where the focus is on selling and marketing rather than producing

• leads to a globalised, dehumanised world, substituting individual and national identities in favour of multinational marketing