reading notes 2

Fredric Jameson, ‘Postmodernism and Consumer Society’

Postmodernism is not very easily understood that could be why it is not accepted today. Postmodernism is represented in a lots of areas of the art field this making it more complex and harder to understand. “Postmodernism is a reaction against the established forms of high modernism.”(164) “Postmodernism is effacement in it of some key boundaries or separations, most notably the erosion of the older distinction between high culture and the so-called mass or popular culture.”(165) Postmodernism is not just another word to describe a particular style. It is more of a grouping of concepts, new way of thinking and designing more of an inner truth. It has a deeper meaning in the consumer or multinational capitalism and social system. You get a sense of history in postmodernism that you don’t get from another movement. I really don’t understand it myself. I need to do this again.