Postmodernism
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- Fordism
- a method of mass industrial production
- post-colonialism
- a. A field of study/art that focuses on the dynamics of cultures, mostly non-Western, emerging from colonial rule.
- modernity
- a term that refers to the modern era. it is distinct from Modernism, which, in different contexts, refers to cultural and intelectual movements of the period
- uncertainty
- a. a term used in subtly different ways in a number of fields, including philosophy, statistics, economics, finance, insurance, psychology, sociology, engineering, and information science. It applies to predictions of future events, to physical measurements already made, or to the unknown. b. The lack of certainty, A state of having limited knowledge where it is impossible to exactly describe existing state or future outcome, more than one possible outcome.
- pastiche
- a dramatic, literary or musical peice openly imitating the previous works of other artists, often with satirical intent
- bricolage
- using something easy at hand for a tool it was not designed for
- hybridity
- mixing and sampling of different kinds and levels
- "civilization man"
- lives outward
- culture vs civilization
- culture is beliefs; civilization is human beings
- low culture
- a. is a derogatory term for some forms of popular culture. The term is often encountered in discourses on the nature of culture. Its opposite is high culture. It has been said by culture theorists that both high culture and low culture are subcultures
- impressionism
- a. A literary style characterized by the use of details and mental associations to evoke subjective and sensory impressions rather than the re-creation of objective reality
- interexuality
- references to other things in a given work
- Meta
- "beside"; "a new but related discipline designed to deal critically with an original one"
- simulacrum
- in postmodern society, there is only one original- and the rest are copies
- Western
- of, or relatint to, or characteristic of western regions or the West
- "culture man"
- lives inward
- grand narrative
- a story a culture tells itself about its practices and beliefs; universal explanatory theories which permit no substantial opposition to their principles
- postmodernism
- a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture are literature and culture, which are generally characterized as wither emerging from, in reaction to or superseding modernism
- high culture
- a. now used in a number of different ways in academic discourse, whose most common meaning is the set of cultural products, mainly in the arts, held in the highest esteem by a culture, or denoting the culture of ruling social groups
- ambiguity
- doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation
- subjectivity
- proceeding from or taking place in a persons mind rather then the external world
- reflexivity
- directed back to itself
- magical realism
- an artistic genre in which magical elements or illogical scenarios appear in an otherwise realistic or even normal setting
- Western Canon
- a term used to denote a canon of books, and , more widely, music and art, that has been most influential in shaping Western Culture