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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Week One Consumerism Brand – refers to the name and iconography of a product‚ replaces interpersonal communication with the producer‚ attempts to overlay transformational values for the consumer. Target Audience Pioneer advertising Competitive advertising Comparative advertising Subliminal advertising Materialism Social marketing – kim dotcom pastiche Green marketing Culture of Commodity ‘Commodity fetishism’ (Karl Marx) Example: price tag Uganda Week Two Capitalism – the
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Personal Worldview Inventory Grand Canyon University Spirituality HLT-310V Richard Hudock June 28‚ 2015 Personal Worldview Inventory My personal beliefs have formed me over the course of my lifetime by many different influences. Many people have made important impact in my life that have changed my beliefs in society and my life. The major two values that help determine my worldview are God and Ethics they are the ways that help me shape my beliefs‚ and life decisions. I feel the strongest
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Management and organizational behavior The Dell Company has made choices using the systems and contingency approaches to management of the company. Firstly‚ the company’s strategy of having the customer of the product design it himself is a systematic in that the company builds a machine that is precise to the consumer’s needs thus reducing the overall time and cost of the process. The specified designs also means very little resources in primary research as the consumers can choose exactly what
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major theories of popular culture‚ from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism. Dominic Strinati provides a critical assessment of the ways in which theorists have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture in modern society. Among the theories and ideas the book introduces are mass culture‚ the Frankfurt School and the culture industry‚ structuralism and semiology‚ Marxism‚ political economy and ideology‚ feminism‚ postmodernism and cultural populism. Strinati explains how theorists such as
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Bibliography: Jameson‚ Fredric. Postmodernism‚ or the cultural logic of late capitalism. London: Verso‚ 1991 Lyotard‚ Jacques. The postmodern condition. Manchester: Manchester University Press‚ 1984. Sim‚ Stuart‚ ed. The icon critical dictionary of postmodern thought. Cambridge: Icon Books‚ 1998. Woods‚ Tim. Beginning postmodernism. Manchester: Manchester University Press‚ 1999. Cavallaro‚ Dani. Critical & cultural theory. London:
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DANIEL MARTIN ASPECTS OF POSTMODERNISM Postmodernism is the cultural and intellectual phenomena associated to postmodernity and it refers to the intellectual mood and cultural expresions that are becoming increasingly dominant in contemporary society‚which are meant as a critical reaction of the ideals‚principles and values that lie at the heart of modern mind-set. The novel can be seen as autobiographical.The writer states in an interview-you are
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philosophical pluralism‚ under which religious pluralism falls‚ posits that no religion has the right to pronounce itself true and right. In other words‚ no religion can advance “truth claims” that are superior to any other. Carson states that postmodernism is the outlook that birthed philosophical pluralism.[ii] While I agree that pluralism is an important subject that benefits from the kind of attention given to it in the book‚ I believe the length of the book and the comprehensive nature
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of living‚ and people would forget about “what is really important.” 1. What is postmodernism? Postmodernism began as something to question the ideas of modernism. Post modernists distrust science since they believe scientific facts are products of social processes and bias just like everything else. They view culture as a series of ideas‚ images‚ symbols‚ and media. Postmodernism basically says that there is no set definition of reality and that the world is indefinable‚ always
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Solitude is the state of being alone or feeling lonely in an inhabited place. The definition of solitude has evolved since technology was introduced to us humans. In “The End of Solitude‚” Deresiewicz says that electronics have made us incapable of being alone – that we no longer appreciate solitude because it causes fear in us. He also argues that we are replacing solitude by being in constant communication with social media. “This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized‚
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