COMM 2P20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hyperreality, New Left Review, Frankfurt School

• School: Brock University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2P20
• Professor: Baxter Moore

Document Summary

A stage of socio-cultural development associated with late capitalism or what is sometimes referred to as post-industrial society or the globalized economy . Deindustrialization the importance of the service sector and moderate, generalized affluence, at least in developed economies. Also associated with decline of class conflict. Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy, especially the philosophy of art, concerned with the nature and value of art and the criteria by which it should be evaluated; Briefly, it means what is beautiful or what is good . Sampling genre-bending and genre-crossing (but with the roots showing ) the mash-up as musical example and the breaking down of traditional cultural boundaries or categories. More accurately, a group of diverse theories and theorists, coming from various perspectives and ideological viewpoints, All attempting to explain postmodern culture and its place in history. Between postmodern cultural aesthetics and the aesthetics of modernism. Most famous work: the postmodern condition: a report on knowledge (1979)