SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Metanarrative, Jean Baudrillard, The Postmodern Condition
1 Apr 2017
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The term entered into our popular discourse during the 60s: a time when much change was taking place was also resulting in the questioning of truth and universal thought. For sontag, postmodernism was marked by a new sensibility following a collapse (or dislodging) of the binary of high and low. Recall basquiat and its blurring of boundaries between hip hop and jazz. No longer able to cleanly compartmentalize cultural texts as valuable/not valuable or important/not important. Critique the long held the notion of a modernist canon and its sustaining and celebrating of those specific texts. The canon: dominant texts such as works of traditional literature these include the same titles generationally such as ______ or _______or ________ For critics, modernism had become elitist, rarely containing the subversive impulse it once did and in effect, had become castrated to any subversive inclination. Frederic jameson: this change was the result of a particular shift:
