postmodernism

Question 1

what are the key features of a post modern society?

Answer 1

-family options
-detraditionalization
-duality of media
-covert control e.g. CCTV
you create who you want to be

Question 2

what are the features of a modern society?

Answer 2

-social class
-family
-overt social control
-structured
you knew who you were

Question 3

What did Lyotard say?

Answer 3

science has helped destroy the metanarratives, they are too simply to explain life properly.
Knowledge is no longer a tool of the authorities, we have the choice to believe what we want.
Actions are judged on how useful they are rather than how true they are.

Question 4

What was Baudrillard’s claim?

Answer 4

The media creates our desires
Simulacra-make believe goods which have no relationship with the world
image is everything!

Question 5

why did post modernists reject Derridas claim that modernism was characterised by an obsession with consumption?

Answer 5

telling the “big story” is now impossible

reality is fragile and confusing