Review Notes for Week 2

Hey Everyone,
I hope you all can get on to our new blog. Here are my review notes for the articles "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" and "An Enquiry in to the Origins of Social Change", I sent them by email earlier but here they are:
Review Notes for Week Two:

Postmodernism and Consumer Society

Postmodernism: a reaction to what was going on in art and architecture in the 1960’s; in other words a reaction to high modernism.

“Pastiche is blank Parody”??
- Parody is mimicry; the wearing of a stylistic mask; making fun, exaggeration; a sense of joviality.
- Pastiche lacks in amusement; it is plain mimicry; a serious parody.

The end of individualism
- modernism as private, unique style, individualist
- Postmodernism as collective pastiche; borrowing from history. A weight has been lifted; pressure of creating a unique stylized private world is dead. Did this occur as a type of copout? We just ran out of ideas?
- As it is defined right now postmodernism is not a style, it is anything that doesn’t reflect the private unique style of high modernism. So then, what is it? What “style” are we in right now? Do we need to be in a style? Why do we need to constantly define the boundaries of what is happening?
- We are left with the imitation of dead styles

Nostalgia
- This desire for something past is consistent with postmodernism.
- What is the difference between the nostalgia film or pastiche and the films of history or the historical novel? We create history for the present, we no longer use history for its intrinsic value.

Historical Amnesia
- Society now lacks our own history; perhaps that is why these fake histories and nostalgic inclinations are so prevalent today; architecture as a way to create and manipulate memory and the past.

Postmodernism = our reality as constructed image and time only exists in the present.

An Enquiry into the Origins of Social Change

Postmodernism is an historical- geographical condition, but what kind of a condition?

The image of everything being okay is more important or prevalent then the reality of everything not being okay.
Image is everything; we live under the constant bombardment of social and political image.

Beneath the illusion of stability is chaos that expands and goes unnoticed.

So, for today at 12:00 we have to sent Jae 7 points (questions and opinions) for each of the articles. If we can each come up with 3 points per article and put them up on the blog we can sift through them at 11:00 and then come up with our 14 Points to email to Jae. What does everyone think of this?