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Postmodernism

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

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  1. Postmodernism John R. Baldwin COM 422 School of Communication—Illinois State University

  2. 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

  3. 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…

  4. "While the deadline has been posted and the site open for submissions since December, the National Office is mindful of the situation and has extended the deadline to assist those having trouble right now."

  5. Some Key Ideas • Ideology • Discourse (not just language!):A set of ideas that are framed together in a message. Similar to Articulation • Metanarrative

  6. Some Key Ideas • Intertextuality: Borrowing meaning from one text into another Polysemy • Archeology (Foucault) • Deconstruction (Derrida) • Bricolage/pastiche • Fragmentation • Pleasure

  7. How is it different from Post-Positivism?

  8. What are some reasons it may have become so prominent?

  9. What PM does and does not like…

  10. What PM does and does not like…

  11. 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.

  12. 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…

  13. 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?

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