POSTMODERNISM :

Postmodernism definition 
 
1. Postmodernism is a general and wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others.

2. Postmodernism is "post" because it is denies the existence of any ultimate principles, and it lacks the optimism of there being a scientific, philosophical, or religious truth which will explain everything for everybody - a characteristic of the so-called "modern" mind.

3. The most theoretical concepts are defined by their role in the conjectured theoretical network. (A subset are 'operationally' defined by a fairly direct tie to observations).

4. It follows that theoretical concepts are 'open', or what logicians call 'partially interpreted'. Research continues precisely because they are open; the research task is to 'close' them, although never completely.


Quote:
“Postmodernists are uncomfortable with propositions for an obvious reason: they don't like the clarity and inflexibility required to deal with truth in propositional form.”
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Postmodern art is a term used to describe an art movement which was thought to be in contradiction to some aspect of modernism, or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath.







Post-postmodernism is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism.

If you're in or around the New York City area, this could be something cool to check out. A Brooklyn artist who goes by the name of [dNASAb] (complete with brackets) has a new exhibit up at the Vertexlist gallery in Williamsburg in which he displays iPods in various states of destruction, surrounded by wires and cables and odd translucent arrows. On the iconic little Apple devices' video screens, the artist has selected video files that, according to Gridskipper, are "somehow relevant to their discombobulated state."

Post-modern picture books are a specific genre of picture books. Characteristics of this unique type of book include non-linear narrative forms in storybooks, books that are "aware" of themselves as books and include self-referential elements, and what is known as metafiction.

Post-modern music is either simply music of the post-modern era, or music that follows aesthetical and philosophical trends of postmodernism. As the name suggests, the postmodernist movement formed partly in reaction to the ideals modernist. Because of this, Postmodern music is mostly defined in opposition to modernist music, and a work can either be modernist, or postmodernist, but not both.


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The Logic of Postmodernism (10/17/2009)

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POSTMODERNISM :

postmodernism definition ;



any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, esp. a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity. 

Interetextuality

The concept of intertextuality was expressed through the work of Russion literary scholar, Mikhail Bakhtin. While articulating Mikhail’s earlier work on ’dialogism’, juliet Kristeva coined The notion of interetextuality to describe the idea that “Any text that is constructed as a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another”. It basically means that a text is deliberately structured around the recognizable narrative and characters of another text. If you think about it the WORLD surround by the concept of ‘Intertextuality’, it’s sometimes more of a subconscious act of taking ideas from another source. Take music and movies for instance , music that was made over 20 to 30 years ago is now being used again just by remixing the orginal form. Movies on the other hand, are being remade in a manner that the audience of today can relate to it.. I’m not trying to refer Intertextuality as a negative term, though it does have certain drawbacks.

While I was researching on this particular subject, I came across two types of interetextuality:

Ekphrasis- Ekphrasis was defined by Tom Mitchel, Grant Scott and James Hefferman as "the verbal representation of visual representation" . What both the authors mean is that ekphrasis comes into being when a writer describes a visual objects like paintings or sculpturse through a verbal media such as in a novel, poem, or other writings.

Iconotext- This brings us to the second category of intertextuality called iconotext. It is the use of(by way of reference or allusion, in an explicit or implicit way) an image in a text or vice versa. Some think it’s a work of art made up of visual and verbal signs in which text and images form a whole (or union that can not be dissolved and some see it as a Work of arts in which writing and the plastic element present themselves in an inseparable totality. Iconotext can also exist in such works in which one medium is only implied e.g. the reference to a painting in a fictional text. Examples can be found in most newspapers, where articles sometimes carry pictures. It can also be seen in novels in which pictures are used in various parts of the novel to give image to the writing.


SO that’s were I end my discussion people!! I hope this piece of information was as useful to you as it is for me.

Structuralism

The term structuralism is used in many contexts in different disciplines in the 20th centry. Structuralism proposes the idea that many phenomena do not occur in isolation, but instead occur in relation to each other, and that all related phenomena are part of a whole with a definite, but not nec

essarily defined, structure. Structuralists, in any area of knowledge, attempt to perceive that structure and the changes that it may undergo with the goal of furthering the development of that system of phenomena or ideas.

Denotation & Connotation

So, What is denotation ,Denotation is the specific, literal image, idea, concept, or object that a sing refers to.

And Connotation is the figurative cultural assumpitions that the image implies or suggests. It involves emotional overtones, subjective interpretation, socio-cultural values, and ideological assumptions.
Examples:
Stop Sign


 Denotation—Stop (even without words, we recognize the meaning from the shape and color)
Connotation—Risk (accident or ticket)
Health club ad

Denotation, fit person in foreground, you could look like this Connotation fit person in background you could pick up a date like this in our club

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Reading the signs (semiotics)

 It's true! Most men don't even know it, and even more of us don't notice even the most basic nonverbal signals that women send out. But regardless of how oblivious you may be, body language still affects your life in a major way on a daily basis. During a typical conversation, the body language of the individuals talking can tell you everything you need to know about their interaction even if you can't hear what they are saying. That makes it very powerful when harnessed by someone who has mastered the art of reading body language.

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