MEDIAST 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Independent Sector, Late Modernity, Postmodern Culture
13 Feb 2017
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Suggests with rise of media tech, making models of the real, relationship between model (the map) and the real social territory it charts changed in the postwar years of the 20th century. Entering postmodernism era characterized by media and technologies of simulation, we lost sight of the real . Fundamental aspect of postmodern society, identity, and style: we do not live in a postmodern world. 20th century by baudrillard where images are more than real. Concept of simulation describing collapse between counterfeit and real, and the original and the copy, that exists in culture that had become strongly organized around digital tech. Response to conditions of late modernity linked to stages of capitalism. Changes social and economic conditions that produce styles and ways of being in a subject". David harvey: pm is post-fordist culture of flexible accumulation and argued that we are experiencing a phase of time-space compression that has a disorienting and disruptive impact upon poli-econ practices.
