POST- MODERNISM INTRODUCTION a style and concept in the arts characterized by a distrust of theories and ideologies and by drawing

attention to conventions GRAND NARRATIVE - Big Story the Bible God -You look out and God answers your questions ROMANTICISM -Looking internally for answers French Revolution

INDUSTRIALISATION -All of us coming together to make identical things - Dont need a skilled individual - can do it yourself -No skill involved of being a human being - people become disconnected MODERNISM - MACHINES FOR LIVING IN -Socially improves people lives - can get everybody out of poverty - The shock new - 1922 Creating better living -1931 became more artistic- all tradition is lost -Modernism was very radical -Originally for building houses Now built for business POST- MODERNISM - About challenging, makes us all equal with other people -(Daft Punk) All fragments of other work - not their own THE BASICS
End of gran d narratives Fractured Identity Image rich culture Intertextuality

GRAND NARRATIVE - Lyotard- in exam put his name in brackets as an example END OF GRAND NARRATIVES
Morality is personal Relative truth- what you (I) believe Decline of traditional religion Political cynicism Science and technology is fallible Authority is untrustworthy Marxism and capitalism is flawed - the belief that the world is revolved around money

HYPERREALITY LEVI- STRAUSS- Saw any text as constructed out of socially recognisable debris from other texts ADDITION
DELETION SUBSTITUTION TRANSPOSITION

FRACTURED IDENTITY
CERTAINTIES OF CLASS , GENDER, PLACE FADE

EMPHASIS ON LIFESTYLE MEANS IDENTITY IS DYNAMIC GLOBALISATION AND THE INTERNET ETHNICITY, RACE, SEXUALITY , AGE RECOGNISED AS SIGNIFICANT

IMAGE RICH STYLE OF SUBSTANCE HYPERREALITY- OUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE IS FAKE , REALITY IS A COPY FROM A PICTURE REPRESENTATIONS DOMINATE SIMULACRA ; EVERYTHING IS A COPY BOUNDARIES BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW CULTURE IS NO LONGER FIXED EVERYTHING IS EQUAL