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Postmodernism. John R. Baldwin COM 422 School of Communication—Illinois State University. Background. Dissatisfaction with… What happened in 1968? How is it alike…or different from: Nihilism (Nietsche, Heidegger) Language, semiotics: “linguistic turn” Existentialism
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Postmodernism John R. Baldwin COM 422 School of Communication—Illinois State University
Background • Dissatisfaction with… • What happened in 1968? • How is it alike…or different from: • Nihilism (Nietsche, Heidegger) • Language, semiotics: “linguistic turn” • Existentialism • Marxist critical theory • Phenomenology
REALITY: From social construction to: ___________ • KNOWLEDGE: • MEANING: • CULTURE: Not “culture” as a system of x, y, & z • Not culture as a social construction • Not even culture as control • But culture as __________________ • Not “cultures” as unified, but as __________ • From ethnicity to: ____________ • MIND/SELF: ____________ implies loss of ________ • RESEARCH: • Blurred genres, blurred disciplines • The politics of (re)presentation Implications for…
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Some Key Ideas • Ideology • Discourse (not just language!):A set of ideas that are framed together in a message. Similar to Articulation • Metanarrative
Some Key Ideas • Intertextuality: Borrowing meaning from one text into another Polysemy • Archeology (Foucault) • Deconstruction (Derrida) • Bricolage/pastiche • Fragmentation • Pleasure
Express Yourself • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okFF0pgFyiI Maria: There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
Me against the Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU5WQCufojA Britney/Madonna Parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmfsak2izxw The Matrix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te6qG4yn-Ps Bill & Ted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHCYBOvCQI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flcv_TnH7Mk&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTmUR1wteA8&feature=related • Of deconstruction, fractured/discursive identities and so on…
Strengths and Limitations • Affirmative versus Skeptical postmodernism • Postmodern (non)sense and the Sokol hoax • PM: “I’m not dead, yet…”—postmodern discourse embedded in strange places. • What do you think?