VCC101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Future Orientation, The Postmodern Condition, Professional Wrestling Aerial Techniques
17 Apr 2018
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Vcc101h5 lecture 12: images of images: the postmodern. Spectacle: guy debord (1931-1994): spectacle, situationist international, situationist international: revolutionary anticapitalist movement including artists working with detournement, society of the spectacle (1967) influential in the leftist civil unrest in france in 1968, subversive reappropriation, e. g. Paris by night, d tournement of paris tourist art by situationist asger jorn, 1959: e. g. The disquieting duckling, (cid:862)(cid:373)odifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374)(cid:863) of painting from flea market, asger jorn, 1959: situationist-inspired work by barbara kourger, e. g. (cid:862)pro-life for the unborn; pro-death for the por(cid:374)(cid:863) o(cid:448)er photo of george bush, spectacle is our everyday lives distraction of reality that allows capitalism to function. K(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge (cid:272)eases to (cid:271)e a(cid:374) e(cid:374)d i(cid:374) itself, it loses its (cid:858)use-(cid:448)alue(cid:859)(cid:863) the. Jones and kirkland, mississauga city hall, 1987: mixing of high and low culture, playful references to previous styles, etc. Plurality of views, critique of universalism & science/reason. No deep reality, only appearance: simulation, simulacra, meaning is all on & about the surface.
