Postmodernism introduction

-Citizens of the middle ages/ members of premodern tribal societies could live their entire lives without meeting people who differ from them.

-In the modern ages, it is hard to even get through a day without experiencing different realities

-New technology and communications have caused us to view the world in a different way ( expanding and shrinking)

-stage of realism- the era of the bourgeois 

-age of modernism- expressed dissatisfaction with the world 

-age of postmodernism- dislocation and fragmentation os language communities

Jean Baudrillard

-Disneyland - model of entangles orders of simulation (illusions, creativity) 

- Disneyland imaginary is neither true or false

Postmodernism- Frederic Jameson 

• Van Gogh’s painting of peasant shoes
• different ways to read the painting

-hermeneutical - the work in its inert, objectical form is taken as a clue or a symptom for some vaster reality which replaces it with the truth