Friday, 3 December 2010

TASK - 01/07/2015

Complete this task during today's lesson and post the youtube link, quotation and explanation in the comments section below.


1. Run a google search for quotations about postmodernism. Searching for quotations by the following philosophers may be helpful.
  • Baudrillard
  • Lyotard
  • Jameson
  • Strinati
  • Derrida
NB: Some of them may be very obscure, so find something that you can get close to understanding.

2. Find a youtube clip that supports the quotation in some way. This may be difficult to do if you chooses a very difficult quotation. Ideally, find one that already rings bells in your mind. To narrow down your search you can always look through some of The Trews, which often contain postmodern ideas.

3. Explain (as best you can) the meaning of the quotation, making reference to the clip you have chosen. This should not be longer than 200 words.

NB: POST EVERYTHING IN THE COMMENTS SECTION INCLUDING LINKS TO ANY GOOD WEBSITES YOU FIND ALONG THE WAY.

21 comments:

  1. 'Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood' - Baudrillard

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  2. "Postmodernism tries to come to terms with and understand a media-saturated society. The mass media, for example, were once thought of as holding up a mirror to, and thereby reflecting, a wider social reality. Now that reality is only definable in terms of surface reflection of the mirror"
    ― Dominic Strinati

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  3. Jean Baudrillard – “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning”

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  6. "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." - Derrida

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  7. Jean-Francois Lyotard- “Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives”

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  8. "Media images encourage superficiality rather than substance, cynicism rather than belief, the thirst for constant change rather than security of stable traditions, the desires of the moment rather than the truths of history"-Strinati

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  9. "Media images encourage superficiality rather than substance, cynicism rather than belief, the thirst for constant change rather than security of stable traditions, the desires of the moment rather than the truths of history" - Strinati

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  10. "Postmodernism tries to come to terms with and understand a media-saturated society. The mass media, for example, were once thought of as holding up a mirror to, and thereby reflecting, a wider social reality. Now that reality is only definable in terms of surface reflection of the mirror" Dominic Strinati

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  11. "It is safest to grasp the concept of the post modern as an attempt to think the present historically, in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place" - Frederick Jameson, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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  12. “The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.” - Jean Baudrillard

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  13. "Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives". – Lyotard

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  14. “…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?” - Jean-François Lyotard

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  15. “The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”

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  16. 'The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true' - Jean Baudrillard

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  17. “The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real. “Jean Baudrillard

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  18. “This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products”
    ― Larry McCaffrey

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