POMO Flashcards
Introduction
Emerged in the 60s and 70s as a development of rationalism and progress of Darwin, Marx and Freud in the modernist movement
Talk about key features
Theorists like baudrillard, fiske and lyotard ackonledge its nature
Theorists like jameson reject the movement- time of low art
In my opinion…
GTA 3 points
Grand Narratives
Hyper-reality
Advancement of technology
GTA - Hyperreality
ECO - ‘The Authentic Fake’
Bauldrillard argues that postmodernism fabricates a better life than reality - an alternative
Dangers
Meta-reflection
City choice - move on the tecnology
GTA - Grand Narratives
Lyotard - ‘ Grand Narrative is dead’
Liberty city
use of bad things
GTA - Technology
‘More and more information, less and less meaning’ - Baudrillard
Mapping of the whole world
Map on the game limitations
Hip-hop Kanye
Jamerson believes there has been cultural blending where high-art has been mized with low art
Mozart in Clean Bandits album - NEW eyes
Otis reading in Kayne and Jay-Z Song OTIS where they rap over the original
Both credit the artist on the song - pastiche
Bricolage - Levi-strauss
Tarantino ‘ I steal from every movie ever made’
Seven Psychopaths
Hyper-conscious - Jim Morris
Anachronism - Operatic music during fight scenes
Parody - Excessive blood
Pastiche - the joker
Parody + Pastiche only work for an active audience who know the texts - John Fiske - Car chase
Grand Narratives - ‘peace is for queers’, ‘Gandhi was wrong’
Pseudo-Modernism
Alan Kirby
Explain what it is
‘Postmodernism has had it’s heyday’
once a movement become ‘Culturally dominant’ its no longer a movement and makes way for a new movement
Only exists in lesser forms like children films and advertising
Conclusion
Summarize paragraphs
Acknowledge controversy and comment on future
Personal Opinion and argument and link back to question
