Postmodernism - applying theory to your understanding of its asthetics

Learning Objective 

To investigate key theories and apply them to digital media texts 

Question 2 in the examination relies on you being able to give a sense of the debates around postmodernism. to do this you need to able to consider and know the following:

1. The theorists who defined what the postmodern was and is
2. The theorists who disagreed with them
3. Whether we have moved beyond the postmodern or whether we are experiencing the zenith of the postmodern era
4. You need to make sure that you learn quotations by theorists as well as a list of terms that will allow you to access marks for you use of terminology. 

Update on Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 4:20PM by Jane Knight

Some links to theorists that we have looked at in lesson:

Kirby - digimodernism 

Felix Stalder - Between Democracy and Spectacle

Fredrick Jameson - Postmodernism the cultural logic of Late Capitalism

PDF files of the definitions used in class

Baudrillard 

Lyotard/Jameson 

Kirby - Digimodernism

McLuhan