2. Andy Warhol & ‘Pop Art’ (1960s)

3. Postmodern architecture: Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto

4. Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
Another example:
Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

5. “It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.” – Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, ix

6. Other Concepts of the Postmodern
Fredric Jameson
A new depthlessness
The waning of affect
Blank parody
Hysterical/camp sublime
Jean Baudrillard
Hyperreality
Simulacra and Simulation
Jean-François Lyotard
incredulity toward meta-narratives
postmodern sublime
David Harvey
Time—space compression

7. Some Versions of Postmodern Sublime

8. Three Mile Island – Nuclear Meltdown 1979

9. The emptiness, the sense of cosmic darkness.
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