Professional Documents
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Postmodernism
Deconstructing Mrs.
Miller
Questions
1.What is postmodernism?
2.Why should we care about it?
3.Have you received a modern or postmodern education?
4.What does postmodernism have to say about your identity?
5.What does postmodernism have to say about truth, beauty,
and goodness?
Timeline
as
Theocentric
Economic
Humanistic
TRADITIONAL WESTERN MODERN THINKING
Timeline
Modernity
RENAISSANCE TO ABOUT 1900 (+/- 30 years)
Baudrillard:
Early modernity:
Modernity:
Postmodernity:
Industrial Revolution
Period of mass media
Timeline
1900
Modern
2000
Modernism
Postmodernism
Timeline
1900
Modern
Modernism
2000
Postmodernism
Newtonian Order
Modernity
What Is Language?
Purpose of Literature
Modernism
Early 1900s:
World War I
PRECURSORS OF POSTMODERNISM
Modernism
Early 1900s:
World War I
Intellectual upheaval:
Freud: psychoanalysis
PRECURSORS OF POSTMODERNISM
Relativism
E=mc2
Time is relative
Universe is strange
PRECURSORS OF POSTMODERNISM
Modernist Art
Cubism
Surrealism
Dadaism
Expressionism
PRECURSORS OF POSTMODERNISM
Modernist Art
Cubism
Surrealism
Dadaism
Expressionism
PRECURSORS OF POSTMODERNISM
Modernist Art
Cubism
Surrealism
Dadaism
Expressionism
PRECURSORS OF POSTMODERNISM
Modernist Art
Cubism
Surrealism
Dadaism
Expressionism
PRECURSORS OF POSTMODERNISM
Modernist Literature
Things fall apart,
The centre cannot hold,
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
--Yeats, The Second Coming
PRECURSORS OF POSTMODERNISM
Modernist Literature
PRECURSORS OF POSTMODERNISM
What is Postmodernism?
Anti-foundational
POSTMODERNISM
What is Postmodernism?
POSTMODERNISM
Frederick Jameson
POSTMODERNISM
Life just is
Mass-mediated reality
POSTMODERNISM
Language
The self
Gender
EVERYTHING!
POSTMODERNISM
POSTMODERNISM
Richard Rorty
(1931-)
A pragmatic philosopher
Anti-foundationalist
POSTMODERNISM
POSTMODERNISM
PostModern Literature
Parodies of meta-narratives
POSTMODERNISM
Fragmented Identities
PostModern Literature
Ironic detachment
Linguistic innovations
POSTMODERNISM
Binary Oppositions
Modernity
PostModern
History as fact
Cultural pluralism
Alternate families
Authenticity of originals
Hyper-reality (MTV)
Mass consumption
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
Modern or Postmodern?
POSTMODERNISM
PostModernism
POSTMODERNISM
PostModernism
A Global Battle:
THE OBJECTIVISTS
vs.
THE CONSTRUCTIVISTS
POSTMODERNISM
My Way
PostModernism
OBJECTIVISTS
When I said during my presidential bid that I
would only bring Christians and Jews into the
government, I hit a firestorm. How dare you
maintain that those who believe in the JudeoChristian values are better qualified to govern
America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple
answer is, `Yes, they are.'
-from Pat Robertson's "The New World Order"
POSTMODERNISM
Metaphors Kill
PostModernism
People were burned at the
stake for believing there was
more than one version of
reality.
POSTMODERNISM
PostModernism
Our public schools have become
a postmodern battleground.
POSTMODERNISM
PostModernism
You can be a Christian
(or Buddhist, or Hindu, etc.)
in the postmodern world.
POSTMODERNISM
PostModernism
We all slip and slide between the
objective and constructive views:
1. We live in a world of nave realism.
2. But when we think about things, or
have to explain our views, we become
constructivists.
POSTMODERNISM
POSTSTRUCTURALISM
Acceptance of Pluralism
Carrie in
Sex & The
City
&
June
Cleaver
Monica in
Friends
Courtney
Love
Samantha
in Sex &
The City
Celebrating Diversity
PostModernism
POSTMODERNISM
Celebrating Diversity
POSTMODERNISM