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

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

I quite liked learning about all these ideas, but I think it's ultimately a dead end, I mean it's okay to consider it, but where does it actually get us? Hope you get through it soon.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I feel the same - there is a sense of 'so what?' about it, but it is interesting to see how we have constructed inner universes in accordance to what we have been told, or influenced by. I suppose postmodernism challenges it, so we can reevaluate as to what we perceive ourselves to be.

Like you, I do think it is a bit pointless.