ARTS3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Angela Mcrobbie, Post-Structuralism, Late Capitalism
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March 25 first 1/3 or 1/2 about context/primary sources 1/2 2/3 theoretical analysis of essay take home exam: two short essays. Political agenda: postmodernism and the end of things. Introduction of new methodologies is important, it led to accumulation of multiple competing voices/total differentiation. There is nothing outside the text/outside reality. Moment of extreme relativismincreasingly difficult to affirm own practices except in the negative; it"s the end of things; Trying to reinstate some political/cultural/historical reality/viable reality: jameson as marxist: the periodization argument. Periodization: work against poststructuralist models > rejecting the idea that there is depth. Real conditions; can"t access with the truth of postmodernism. 7. monopoly capitalism or imperialist stage > modernism multinational or late capitalism > postmodernism. Finding a moment of contradiction between modernist and postmodernist world view. Van gogh, a pair of boots 1887 vs. andy warhol, No way to attribute warhol"s shoes to larger set of circumstances; saturation of commodified world.