something new and intriguing. You probably won’t hesitate to look at something you always wondered how it looks like when that happens. Don DeLillo well described postmodernism through his writing “Videotape”. His word choices and criticizing how the technology takes role in the society and the mixture between innocence and brutality shows postmodernism in this story. As you read the story‚ you will realize his usage of certain words such as “you” and “forever”. Don DeLillo constantly used the word “you”
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“Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?” By Jean-François Lyotard‚ trans. Régis Durand. NOTE: Written in 1982‚ as postscript to The Postmodern Condition (1979) A Demand This is a “period of slackening” in the “color of the times”. “From every direction we are being urged to put an end to experimentation‚ in the arts and elsewhere”. Bauhaus (1919-1933 Germany: Walter Gropius founded this movement of artists‚ writers‚ architects. Shut down by Hitler for being very radical‚ left-wing)
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2012 In this essay‚ I would settle on parts of psychoanalytic theories (mostly Freudian theories) and retool my understanding of the other three works‚ which contains Kant’s discussion on alienation and human condition/rationality‚ Lyotard’s postmodernism‚ and Pynchon’s novel‚ The Crying of Lot 49‚ to propose a different take on the Freudian conception. The body of this essay is constructed with theories followed by the explanation and example. I choose to use parts of their work to suggest my viewpoints
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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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lines‚ and the last full-stop‚ beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form‚ it is caught up in a system of references to other books‚ other texts‚ other sentences: it is a node within a network. -Foucault What we tend to call postmodernism in literature today is usually characterized by intense self-reflexivity and overtly parodic intertextuality. In fiction this means that it is usually metafiction that is equated with the postmodern. Given the scarcity of precise definitions of
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There is no clear definition of what postmodernism is. However‚ City of Glass is considered to be the by far the text which is most visibly postmodernism. This is precisely because it “offers the kind of narrative that zigzags visibly‚ deliberately missing at all angle the sense of a foundation.” The postmodernist discourse remains central to the understanding of City of Glass. Perhaps the only thing that makes the story alluring is the fact that it is steeped in postmodernist features. Otherwise
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In the postmodern age‚ when no more ‘metanarratives’ are to be believed‚ the glorious heritage of the golden past appears incredulous to the current generation. The current trend of poetry‚ which boasts itself of sceptically questioning the roots and traditions‚ where the motif of ‘emancipation’ is not needed‚ as the worth of human life itself is enquired‚ though is different from our ancient noble trend of poetry‚ yet still it manages to help man by making him search for his new identity; an identity
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so new as well as fresh. His novels are ―tugs at the emotions rather than moralizes serious literary ambitions. He places the facts laughably and mockingly memorizing the readers. His writings have achieved the greatest inheritance of refined postmodernism literature via dismantling the authority of the West. Five Point Someone‚ Chetan Bhagat’s first introductory novel deals with problem of engineering students in India who get into the country’s top university like IIT‚ only to revolt against the
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Apple is a global giant whose success has been built on outsourcing to a range of other organisations located across the world. How can different organisational theory perspectives assist us in acquiring different understandings of Apple‚ its organisational networks and influence? In this essay you must use at least two perspectives to analyse Apple. Success is because of outsourcing. Network and influence meta-therotetical Environmental contingency theory‚ insisutitional theory or stake hodlder
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Notes on post-Fordism and postmodernism Post-Fordism and Postmoderism: Capitalism requires a large number of low-skilled workers willing to put up with alienating‚ repetitive work on mass production assembly lines. This system is often called Fordism because the Ford motor company was the first to introduce this. Bowles and Gintis’ correspondence principle states that school mirrors the work place‚ and see the mass education system as preparing pupils to accept this kind of work. Postmodernists argue
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