The Condition of postmodernity Explains that postmodernity is a reaction to modernism Assumptions, experiences, proportions from that reactions Contrasting

rasting to the idea of modernism as the totality and designing a closed form Postmodernism is seen as the more open Post modern is viewed as fragmentation, discontinuity, and chaos Has a distinct realtions between power and knowledge; post modernist are fascinated by new possibilities of information and knowledge Modernism have changed because the ways one communicate have shifted o Post modernism states that there should be a continual breakdown and reattachment known as deconstructionism o Bits and pieces of the past o Little attempt for sustaining continuity of values and beliefs

Time and Space in Postmodern Cinemea Cinema and photography results from the burst in modernism; it is the most robust capacity for intertwining inthe themes of time and space He discusses two films: blade runner and Wings of Desire o Faced by their maker, Deckards objective is to uncover the replicated in order to terminate them o Images of destruction are everywhere and develop fragmented feelings Time: in this film, there are two different time periods and they are experiencing the world different (humans and replicants) Wings of Desire: there are to groups (humans and angels) o They both live on different time scales o Angels lens of the world is infinite and eternal o Humans lens is limited and seen objectively Trying to understand the aesthetic qualities of time and space in the postmodern world of monochromatic fragmentation If there is a crisis of representation of space and time then there is a new way of thinking and feelings that are created

Postmodern and Blade Runner There are three positions o Human resources and literature o Visual arts o Discourse of architecture Blade Runner is a visual metaphor to analyse narrative space and temporality He identities two concepts: pastiche and Schziophrenia

Pastiches is the effacement of key boundaries and separation; a process of erosion of distinctions o Intended as aesthetic of quotations; incorporation of forms, an imitation of dead styles Relationship between postmodernism is architecture and postindustrialism Link between postmodernism and late capitalism in the films is represented through postindustrial decay Postmodern city is the dark side of technology Postindustrial decay is the acceleration of internal time to post industrial o Through recycling, discontinuous signifiers, explosion of boundaries and erosion Simulacrum- both original and copy, celebration of the false as power and the power as false o Ex replicant Schizophreniao the structure of language represents linear development from past-present-future; however schizophrenia is the breakdown of language/ the breakdown of temporality o It is neither past nor future