Postmodernism – is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism includes skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism.
Modernism – is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Is about the idea of nothing serves a purpose and we can build up and build up but not go anywhere.
Postmodernism says everything’s been done before, nothing’s new.
Welcomes the idea of recycling. This could be images, music/remixes.
Postmodernism
Skepticism
Subjectivism
Relativism
Suspicion. What is right what is wrong.
Nihilism.
Historical reference.
Return to decoration and ornament.
What is it?
Critical of society.
Nothing is original.
Recycling of ideas.
Post-colonial.
Fragmentation.
Deconstruction.
Defies expectations.
Break down preconceived ideas.
Inclusive.
Bring all boundaries into question.
Nothing is definite-impure and eclectic.
Decision between high and low art disappears.
Mixing media.
Collapse boundary between art and life.
Joseph Francese
Narrating Postmodern Time and Space
Aspects of postmodern narratives according to Francese.
Difficulty of perspective.
Continuous flow.
Denial of classification.
Ability to relocate:placeless.
Flux.
Uncertainty.
Jean – Francois Lyotard
The postmodern condition.
Reality consists of singular events which cannot be represented accurately by rational theory.
The understanding of society in terms of “progress” has been made obsolete by the scientific, technological,political and cultural changes of the late twentieth century.
We don’t actually progress anymore, it is just an idea.
Knowledge is not certain it’s not fixed, in the same way how education came along.
Questions modes of power.
Scientific narratives and social narratives.
In lessons of paganism
Claims that all discourse is narrative; all theory, all politics, all law, are merely a collection of stories.
The status of knowledge changed in postmodernism.
Society is multifaceted and fragmented.
Knowledge is divided into narratives and scientific facts.
Narratives sometimes takes the role of rituals/music/dance and becomes timeless.
Even scientific knowledge becomes a narrative (claims and hypotheses) with the scientist as the “hero of knowledge” who discovers the truth.
Universal truths/generalisations or as he calls them ‘grand narratives’ or ‘metanarratives’ are no longer trustworthy.
“Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives”.
Preference for this plurality of small narratives that compete with each other, replacing the totalitarianism of grand narratives.
We are more alert to difference.
Individualisation and dispersion of the narrative into small micro-narratives and the truth is made up of all these narratives.