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Unit 2: cultures , art , people & cities

Socio-Cultural studies II - Unit 2. Unit 2: cultures , art , people & cities. Modern & postmodern. The project of Modernity : philosophical , social & political values of REASON, EQUALITY & JUSTICE ( derived from the Enlightment , XVIII century ) Certainty , reality.

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Unit 2: cultures , art , people & cities

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  1. Socio-Cultural studies II - Unit 2 Unit 2: cultures, art , people & cities

  2. Modern & postmodern • Theproject of Modernity: philosophical, social & politicalvalues of REASON, EQUALITY & JUSTICE (derivedfromtheEnlightment, XVIII century) • Certainty, reality • A continuation / a break • Thequestioningorfall of those ‘Grand Narratives’ • Subjectivity, simulations Can youmentionothercharacteristics? Can you compare/contrastthem?

  3. Baudrillard (France) & Lyotard’sthought • Theloss of the real • Hyperreality & simulations • Mass media & technologies • ‘Mediated’ realities • Theend of the Grand Narratives • Heterogeneousmeaning, forcedinto a unitaryonebytotalisingreason • The ‘invisible & unsayable’ isshown Isthere a ‘reality’? Isitaccessibletous? Whatwerewetold? What’sbehindthat?

  4. Jameson (US) & Eagleton (UK)’s thought • Pastiche: “thedisappearance of thesubject”. No style. No purpose. No irony. • A crisis in historicity: "there no longer does seem to be any organic relationship between the American history we learn from schoolbooks and the lived experience of the current, multinational, high-rise, stagflated city of the newspapers and of our own everyday life" • Convergence of art and commodity in late capitalism: theinabilitytoseeproductsforwhatthey are. ‘integration’ intoaneconomicsystem Concept of art & artist A blurredHistory (US) Concept of art as commodity in capitalism

  5. Postcolonialism (‘80s) • Indeterminacies • Decentredness • Postructuralism • Deconstruction • Againstrepressiveethnocentrism (disregarding non-western traditions) • Tounderminethe ‘Imperialistsubject’ • Toassert & affirm a deniedoralienatedsubjectivity (Hutcheon)

  6. Edward Said (Israel) & GayatriSpivak (India) • Orient: as the ‘other’. A notioncreatedby ‘Occidental’ scholars, basedonanimaginativegeographyratherthannature • Criticismthrough a strategy of negotiationwiththestructures of violenceimposedby Western Liberalism: ‘First/ThirdWorld’ • Deconstruction of inheritedtruths (regardinggender, ethnicity, class)

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