Taming the Hydra - Perspectives
Today's final lecture was on the overall idea of Postmodernism as a hydra, and how its many facets can be approached. Research Federic Jameson - The Cultural Turn (1998) Sokal Hoax Dick Hebdige - Hiding in the light (1988) Federic Jameson: "The concept of postmodernism is not widely accepted or even understood." Postmodernism is a disputed term: Origins - when did it begin? Demolition of Pruitt-Igoe (1972) Fountain - Marcel Duchamp (1917) Tristram Shandy - Laurence Stern (1759) Partially connected to rise of commercialism etc "The postmodern is deliberately exclusive as a concept, avoiding as much as possible the modernist desire to clasify and thereby delimit, bound and confine." Postmodernism is exhausted - been taught for a long time in art and humanities - not exhausted as still in media Postmodernism is nothing without modernism Modernism - affirms power of humans, create, improve and reshape environment, scientific knowl...
