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Transcript of Gabriele Rabino Raffaele Contin 5^A Anno 2010/2011.
Gabriele Rabino
Raffaele Contin
5^A Anno 2010/2011
POSTMODERNISM
It appears in different areas of study and in society
It is hard to define
It’s not clear when it begins
To analyze it we have to start from modernism
MODERNISM
Two modes of definition:
The first definition comes from Aesthetic movement
The second definition comes more from history and sociology than from literature of art history
Main Characteristics Of Modernism
A rejection of the distinction between high and low or popular culture.
A movement away from the apparent objectivity provided by
omiscient third person narrator
An enphasis on subjectivity in writing and how seeing rather than on
what is perceived.
Poetry seems more documentary and prose seems more poetic
An emphasis on fragmented forms: discontinuous narratives
A tendency toward reflexivity or self consciousness
A rejection of elaborate formal aesthetics in favour of minimalist
designs.
Modernism And Postmodernism
Sameness:
Rejecting boundaries between hig and low form of art
Rejecting rigid genre distinctions
Reflexivity and self consciousness
Cultural formation wich accompany particular stages of capitalist
Difference:
Postmodernism , in opposition to modernist , chelebrates the idea of fragmentation.
Capitalism
Three particular stages of capitalism:
Market Capitalist: it is associated with technoligical developments and with a particular kind of aesthetics:realism.
The second stage is associated with electric and internal combustion motors and with modernism.
The third is multinational or consumer capitalism associated with nuclear and eletronic technologies and correlated with postmodernism.
CAPITALISM
Postmodernism society
There are no originals only copies
Knowledge becames functional.
The advent of electronic computer technologies has revolutionized the modes of knowledge production, distribution in the society.
Modernism Is Not Modernity
Modernity refers to :
philosophical,political and ethical ideals
Modernity is older than modernism
They provide the basis for the aesthetic aspect of modernism.
The previous era was labeled antiquity.
The modern era is associated with the European Enlightenment
The Basic Ideas Of The Enlightenment
Are similar at the basic ideas of humanism:
All human istitutions and practices can be analyzed by science.
The mode of knowing produced by the objective rational self is science.
Science is the paradigm for any and all socially useful forms of knowledge.
Also language must be rational, must be trasparent.
The knowledge produced by science is truth and is eternal.
This self knows itself and the word through reason posited as the highest form of mental functioning.
Reason is the ultimate judge or what is true.
There is a stable knowable self. This self is conscious ,rational ,autonomous
Modernity
It is: rationality
rationalization a society will better function.
Have to do with the effort to achieve stability.
order
Modern societies
Creates categories labeled order or disorder
Stability and order are maintained in modern societies through the means of grand narratives .