Questions for Jae

Hey guys, these are the six questions I've come up with for the two articles:

Questions for Week 2 Articles:

Postmodernism and Consumer Society:

1. Postmodernism signaled the end of individualism by signaling the end of high modernism, if this is so, why is postmodernism considered to be creative freedom for the arts?

2. Nostalgia has become an important tool in developments like Florida’s Celebration neighborhood; why do we feel the need to create a past? We create history for the present; we no longer use history for its intrinsic value.

3. Is architecture considered as a way to create and manipulate memories and the past?

An Enquiry in to the Origins of Social Change

1. The image of everything being okay is more important or prevalent then the reality of everything not being okay. What examples are there of this?

2. Image is everything; we live under the constant bombardment of social and political image. Are these the political games we should be playing?

3. Beneath the illusion of stability is chaos that expands and goes unnoticed. Are these the illusions of postmodernism?