L.O.

To understand some of the

key features of postmodernism
and the criticisms of it.
 Starter
Lets hear your paragraphs defining postmodernism
Lets hear your paragraph describing the difference
between the ideologies of modernism and
postmodernism.

What do you think critics of

postmodernism had/have to say?
 Key features of postmodernism
Reaction against modernism
Truth rejected
Rejects verisimilitude
Hyperreality
Challenging originality
Irony & self reference
Mixing previous styles and
themes
Recycling culture
Parody and pastiche
Challenging producer/consumer
relationships
Questioning scientific reasoning
Opposing hierarchy
Rejection of grand narratives
Embracing paradox
Lacking a clear organising
principle
Embracing extreme complexity,
contradiction, ambiguity,
diversity and intertextuality.
Multiplicity
Decenteredness &
fragmentation of meaning
Parody, Pastiche & Bricolage
 Parody or Pastiche?
Glee

Flight of the Conchords

 Parody or Pastiche?
Make a collage (which is essentially a
bricolage) of pictures that are parodies
Make another collage of pictures that are
pastiches

This is a google image task but beware as

some of the pictures that come up under both
those search terms are not really examples of
the words. So choose wisely!
 Criticisms
Postmodernism refers to a cultural, intellectual, or
artistic state lacking a clear central hierarchy or
organizing principle (i.e. no rules)
It embodies extreme complexity, contradiction,
ambiguity, diversity in a way that is often
indistinguishable from a parody of itself. It has
given rise to charges of fraudulence, i.e.
lacking any value.
It is also sometimes used to describe tendencies
in a society that are held to be the opposite
to traditional systems of morality that stop
everything descending into chaos!!!

https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPRzm8
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He who hangs on to truth has lost
Jean Baudrillard
Critics say this is offensive and its a luxury to take this
playful stance on matters of truth.
Peoples of Tibet, Zimbabwe and the Middle East cannot
have such a frivolous disposition when their truth and
justice is contested daily.
However, Baudrillard is not attempting to deny political
reality but establish a philosophical position totalitarian
regimes are amongst the best at asserting ideologies as
truth.
Nevertheless, some believe the alternative to believing in
truth is relativism (whereby anything goes) and this
would lead to moral chaos and ethical anarchy. If truth is
absent how do we deal with matters of justice?