Week 8: Post Modernism & Visual Culture

​Lecture Notes

Key Points From the Text

​Glossary

After Modernism - That modernism has run its course or that a complete knowledge and history of modernism has been surpassed by a new age. 
Anti-foundational - Rejection of rationalism, truths, certainties, doctrines and unstable belief systems. 
Anti-Modernism - Reaction to the failures of modernism, a questioning of the 'ideological bias' of all history and knowledge, and scepticism towards the grand political schemes of modernism.
Determinism - How science and technological innovation affect the production of cultural texts.
Modernism as meta narrative - A story of the arts in the 20th century (told by key cultural figures) which has a clear sense of hierarchy and order.
Double Coding - Any sign or text which is open to two different interpretations depending on the frame of reference which is used to interpret it.
Hyper-Reality - A concept proposed by Jean Baudrillard that captures the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality.
Intertextuality - The relationship between texts.
Mediation - Life lived on and through a screen. 
Nostalgia - A sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past.
Parody - An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
Pastiche - Images are presented without context or meaning.
Post Modernism - Describes the time we're living through.
Post-truth perspectives - The distrust in fact/expert opinion. That truth is relative, contested, not absolute. Replaced by 'authenticity'
Rationalism - Science replacing religious doctrine.