1. Postmodernism John R. Baldwin COM 422 School of Communication—Illinois State University

2. Background Dissatisfaction with… What happened in 1968? How is it alike…or different from: ▫Nihilism (Nietsche, Heidegger) ▫Language, semiotics: “linguistic turn” ▫Existentialism ▫Marxist critical theory ▫Phenomenology

3. Implications for… REALITY: From social construction to: ___________ KNOWLEDGE: MEANING: CULTURE: Not “culture” as a system of x, y, & z Not culture as a social construction Not even culture as control But culture as __________________ Not “cultures” as unified, but as __________ From ethnicity to: ____________ MIND/SELF: ____________ implies loss of ________ RESEARCH: Blurred genres, blurred disciplines The politics of (re)presentation

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5. Some Key Ideas Ideology Discourse (not just language!):A set of ideas that are framed together in a message. Similar to Articulation Metanarrative

6. Some Key Ideas Intertextuality: Borrowing meaning from one text into another Polysemy Archeology (Foucault) Deconstruction (Derrida) Bricolage/pastiche Fragmentation Pleasure

7. How is it different from Post- Positivism?

8. What are some reasons it may have become so prominent?

9.  What PM does and does not like… Does Not Like…Does Like…

10.  What PM does and does not like… Does Not Like…Does Like… Metanarratives Indeterminism ModernityTraditional Rational Emotional, irrational, spiritual, Logic Pleasure, body Linearity Non-linearity Order, division, hierarchy Blurred genres, disorder Modern priorities Taken for granted Liberal democracy Urbanism Rurality Accumulation Present experience Mainstream Borderlines, marginalized voices, silenced, accidental, rejected, disjointed UnityUnity Contradiction, fragmentation

11. Express Yourself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okFF0pgFyiI MariaMaria: There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

12. Of deconstruction, fractured/discursive identities and so on… Me against the Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU5WQCufojA Britney/Madonna Parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmfsak2izxw The Matrix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te6qG4yn-Ps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te6qG4yn-Ps Bill & Ted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHCYBOvCQI&fea ture=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHCYBOvCQI&fea ture=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flcv_TnH7Mk&featur e=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTmUR1wteA8&feat ure=related

13. Strengths and Limitations Affirmative versus Skeptical postmodernism Postmodern (non)sense and the Sokol hoax PM: “I’m not dead, yet…”— postmodern discourse embedded in strange places. What do you think?