The Apple, Auschwitz and the Incredulous Frenchman - Perspectives

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Today we were looking at how multiple things can come together to form new, greater and more complicated works. 

Publications to research

  • Roots of modernism by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
  • The European Enlightenment - the scientific revolution by Richard Hooker - www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT 
  • Memories of my Life (1908) by Francis Galton
  • The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey

Key Ideas

  • Meta-narratives - large-scale theories and philosophies of the world (eg. religion, science, history and art)
  • Teleology - describes the inevitable 'coming-to-be' of something - guarantee of progression towards development or definitive form.
    • Religion - because of its emphasis on transcendence
    • Art - perceived evolution from art movement to art movement and associated notion of the 'avant-garde'
    • Science - discoveries are seen as unlocking the secrets of existence and revealing it finally
    • History - perceived progression from epoch to epoch, with each age more advanced than its predecessor
  • Utopia - an ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political and moral aspects.
  • Dystopian - Undesirable or frightening. The antonym of Utopia
  • Essentialism - the practice of regarding something as having innate existence or universal validity
  • Eugenics - the study of attempting to improve the human race by selective breeding
  • Axiomatic - self-evident
  • Scepticism - the theory that certain knowledge is impossible; doubt as to the truth of something
  • Relativism - the doctrine that knowledge, truth and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute.
  • Pluralism - a condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority etc, coexist. 

Mulholland Drive



This weeks film was Mulholland Drive, which left a lot of people very very confused as to what the actual meaning and content of the film was. So the ways in which Mulholland Drive is postmodern are:
  • Themes of self-consciousness and false realities
  • Hyper-reality
  • Time bending
  • Altered state of mind
  • No final ending drawing everything together

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