"most of the postmodernisms emerge as specific reactions against the established forms of high modernism"
Jameson - Postmodernism and Consumer Society
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Postmodern architecture is is condemned to generate a multiplicity of small transformations."
Lyotard - Defining the Postmodern
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Postmodernism erases the "key boundaries or separations ... of the older disinction between high culture and so-called mass or popular culture" which is most "distressing" for academics
Jameson
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"They incorporate [low texts] to the point where the line between high art and commercial forms seems increasingly difficult to draw"
Jameson
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"the 'post' of postmodernity is the process of... analysing, anamesing, reflecting"
Lyotardn
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If there is a loss of the real then "it is hard to see ground for literary theory to occupy since all methods... depend upon the making of a distinction between surface and depth"
Andrew Bennett - Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
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Originality, which has been of such importance... since at least the 19th century, is seen as a kind of ideological fetish.
Peter Barry - Beginning Theory
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Postmodernism correlates with "the emergence of a new type of social life and a new economic order... modernisation, post-industrial or consumer society"
Jameson - Postmodernism and Consumer Society
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Pastiche is... a neutral practice of such mimicry without parody's ulterior motive... without that still latent feeling that there exists something normal"
Jameson - Postmodernism and Consumer Society
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Simulation short circuits [representation]... Saturated by images, the real becomes unthinkable without the copy
Peter Barry on Baudrillard
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The desirability of a given product is in a sense branded into our consciousness and unconsciousness. This leads to the world of the hyperreal.
Peter Barry on Baudrillard
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"the concept of the unique individual and theoretical basis of individualism as ideological"
Jameson - Postmodernism and Consumer Society
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"narratives do not represent our historical past so much as they represent our ideas or cultural stereotypes about that past"
Jameson - Postmodernism and Consumer Society
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Lyotard - Defining the Postmodern
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Postmodern architecture is is condemned to generate a multiplicity of small transformations."
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