MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Postmodern Culture, Geopolitics, Social Class
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Postmodernism 1945 present: age of social change that tied up so deeply with media (tv) Industrial period: people moved away from farms into cities and realized they could produce much more in terms of consumer goods. 1900: the automobile: car was invented (henry ford) Modernism: modernism emerged from, was driven by, and reacted against massive changes in society, technology, science, geopolitics and philosophy. The bewildering pace and shocking nature of many of these changes, led some modernists to proclaim a qualitative shift in human history. Postmodernism: postmodern media/ stories, question identity as a stable thing, question history as a knowable thing, question reality as a knowable thing (remember the matrix?, postmodern identity, your identity shifts as you occupy different positions in your life. Modern age: production, community life, social class, family, a belief in continuity and situation, a role of education, a one-way media, overt social control, nationhood, science aided progress and finding the truth.
