postmoderninsm

Question 1

simulation

Answer 1

blurring lines between reality/image

Question 2

hyper relality

Answer 2

exageration of current society

Question 3

post modernism (META NARRATIVES)

Answer 3

their is no objective crate that can be used to prove wether something is true or false , state we have meta narratives (media) and are used to help create oppressive states imposed their version of truth on people = cause inequality

Question 4

lyotard 1992

Answer 4

knowledge is a series of diff lang games or ways of seeing the world. people bid their version of truth and recut people to follow same principles

Question 5

baudrillard: simulacra

Answer 5

knowledge is central to post modern society, knowledge is about buying/selling knowledge in form of images and signs > signs stand for nothing but themselves eg newspaper, characters in fiction soaps are signs about signs . he is critical of tv the main source of simulacra and our inability to distinguish between image/reality

Question 6

culture,idenity,policies

Answer 6

role of media creating hyper reality impacts culure/idenitiy eg clothes. culture no longer fragmented ad unstable, no longer fixed set of values shred by members of SoCIETU (don’t know our own indieity )

Question 7

evaluation

Answer 7

people can reject embracing meta narrate (don’t need to use social media)
criticised by marxism due to ignoring power an inequality (overlooks effect of poverty restricting opp)