You will need to use the link to moodle G325 critical Perspectives to access various documents and tasks we will be doing but use these links and posts to begin thinking about what post modernism is, where and how it occurs in the media and how you both understand the world and represent yourself as a member of the 'postmodern world'.
The medium is the message
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
Borges Map:
https://notes.utk.edu/bio/greenberg.nsf/0/f2d03252295e0d0585256e120009adab?OpenDocument
Hyperreality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality
JEAN BAUDRILLARD'S THOUGHTS ON Media
http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Baudrillard's%20Thoughts%20On%20Media.htm#Introduction: The Territory No Longer Precedes The Map
TASK: Using the 'Baudrillard in Practice - Saddam's Statue' document in Moodle explain how the representation of these events would be described using postmodern theory and ideas such as mediation - or even mediatization and hyperreality and what these imply about our understanding of the 'reality' of the world. You need to do the task in Word but can use comments here to offer useful insights & offer or ask for help from me or your fellow students.
What is postmodernism...
What is this image signifying about postmodernism?
