New Tech & Post Modernism - The Prologue

[changeling67]

At the moment, I feel that I am trying to take a crash course in learning the POMO jargon.  I HAVE wondered if not knowing clearly about signs and semiotics is down to something I have significantly missed between my ACCESS course and my FdA English; stuff other students may have learnt, but was not part of the ACCES syllabus. Nobody’s fault, just somehow I have slipped through the net of understanding.

I am attempting the NT2 essay, but before I do that I have to work backwards a little.  I understand a little of it now – mostly about the nature of structualism.

Modernism vs Postmodernism
Modernism	Postmodernism
romanticism/symbolism	paraphysics/Dadaism
form (conjunctive, closed)	antiform (disjunctive, open)
purpose	play
design	chance
hierarchy	anarchy
mastery/logos	exhaustion/silence
art object/finished work/logos	process/performance/antithesis
centering	absence
genre/boundary	text/intertext
semantics	rhetoric
metaphor	metonymy
root/depth	rhizome/surface
signified	signifier
narrative/grande histoire	anti-narrative/petite histoire
genital/phallic	polymorphous/androgynous
paranoia	schizophrenia
origin/cause	difference-difference/trace
God the Father	The Holy Ghost
determinacy	interdeterminacy
transcendence	immanence

Plus understand the works of Jacques Derrida et al.  Busy Busy Busy.

Comments

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Thank you Looloo, if it wasn't in my own interest then I would gloss over most of it - as it is, I am rather glazed over with it (however I am rather taking a crash course in it).

I have an LJ sticky post, which keeps all of the links in one place - I will take the 'privacy' option off so you can take a look at other stuff (if you like, of course - no obligation).

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

I'd like to try it... don't know what 'sticky posts' are..so that will be useful to find out, and what I shall find IN it... can't promise a highly intellectual bunch of comments!!! teehee. thicko me.. like Thor!

Hugs...

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Click onto my journal and you will see that it is the immovable entry at the top of the page (when you post, you have the option to make it a 'sticky' post. Many use it as an extension to their profile - I use it for whatever topic I am on academically).

This particular sticky post is the Magritte picture - 'This Is Not A Pipe' and the post-modern links are below it :-)

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Bless.. and now I have MORE sideways thinking to do! What FUN it all is on a grey wet day.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Good luck Looloo - it just gives me a blinding headache (not a good start for someone who is going to begin her assignment tomorrow).