Australia. For the two adolescents‚ ‘Pikelet’ and ‘Loonie’‚ the central characters‚ it is a place of sheer boredom‚ what Levinas calls ‘the there is’‚ an impersonal emptiness which is ‘neither nothingness nor being’5 but may well be the state which Lyotard calls ‘post-modern’‚ a state of ‘incredulity towards meta-narratives’6 in which there is nothing beyond the self which longs for immediate
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cultural critique (reflection of self through studying alien culture). DUALITY-Palestinian and American‚ Said 50s linguistics‚ 70-80s literature and interpretation CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION ‘New criticism’ - internal criticism of texts Lyotard-crisis of metanarratives White‚ Metahistory 1973 : emplotment‚ argument‚ ideal; translates problem of historical explanation into problem of representation. -traces romance-tragedy-comedy- IRONY -search for multiple‚ openenended alternatives—that
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work of clarifying. Nevertheless‚ its popularity‚ both in academic and popular culture‚ at the mid-point of the twentieth century was rather astounding (on the strength of such philosophers‚ writers and critics as Foucault‚ Deleuze and Guattari‚ Lyotard‚ Baudrillard‚ Derrida and others of course). It represented for many a much needed emancipation from the ridged strictures of
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improving indefinitely‚ etc.)‚ as well as the political systems that have underpinned this belief. Jean-François Lyotard associates this scepticism with the loss of ‘grand recits’. These ’grand narratives’ are large-scale theories and philosophies of the world‚ such as the progress of history‚ the knowability of everything by science‚ and the possibility of absolute freedom. Lyotard argues that we have ceased to believe that narratives of this kind are adequate to represent and contain us all.
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they all would do so. Thus exactly what postmodernism contributes‚ i.e.‚ it destroys the universal validity of Reason. In other words‚ it refutes the absolute normativity of reason. That might explain the well-known definition which Jean-François Lyotard gives to postmodernism: “I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives3.” The breakdown of absolute belief in reason‚ progression‚ God‚ metaphysics‚ and so on‚ which can be described under the rubric metanarratives‚ led towards
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scholarship‚ penetrates many different social disciplines: psychology‚ anthropology‚ sociology‚ sociolinguistics. Acknowledging all difficulties to narrow down the term “postmodernism”‚ one should recognize the key figures of linguistic turn‚ such as J. F. Lyotard‚ F. Lacane‚ M. Foucault‚ Derrida. In a nutshell‚ postmodern paradigm stress that language‚ discourse‚ and narrative should not
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PLANNING IN POSTMODERN TIMES THE RTPI Library Series Editors: Cliff Hague‚ Heriot Watt University‚ Edinburgh‚ Scotland Robin Boyle‚ Wayne State University‚ Michigan‚ USA Robert Upton‚ RTPI‚ London‚ UK Published in conjunction with The Royal Town Planning Institute‚ this series of leading-edge texts looks at all aspects of spatial planning theory and practice from a comparative and international perspective. The series • explores the dimensions of spatial planning and urbanism‚ in
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Claude Cahun: Boy & Girl Together For this discussion I found an interest in the gender bending “self-portraiture” of Claude Cahun. An added interest I later found about Cahun and her work came after googling her name; I found some articles about feminism in art that not only speak about Cahun and her feminist work‚ but also about Cindy Sherman’s art as well (Imagine that to my surprise). Cahun was one of first the 20th century (female) artists to dress herself up in an array of gender
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91–112. Drucker‚ P. (1994). The knowledge society. Atlantic Monthly‚ 274‚ 53–80. Edgar‚ D. et al. (1993). Introduction to Australian society (2nd ed.). NY: Prentice Hall. Hassard‚ J. & Parker‚ M. (1994). Postmodernism and organizations. London: Sage. Lyotard‚ J.F. (1984). The postmodern condition: A report on knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Mills‚ C.W. (1959). The sociological imagination. NY: Oxford University Press. Milner‚ A. (1991). Contemporary cultural theory: An introduction
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1. What is meant by the ‘postmodern condition’? Postmodernism can be called “a condition of contemporary culture”‚ it is a modern movement which is strong‚ ambiguous‚ very popular and controversial. However‚ it is very difficult to explain the term because there is no full clarity what the term really means. As one can read in The Condition of Postmodernity it is “a mine-field of conflicting notions” and “a battleground of conflicting opinions and political forces”. There are so many interpretations
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