E 341 Lecture Notes - Metanarrative, Cybernetics, Postmodern Architecture
Document Summary
3 nodes of connection that shape postmodern theory. Wwi heightens this sense of a broken humanity. A sense that we are not godlike, we do not control our own place in the world. Modernism responds to this by focusing on: the individual under siege who must be rescued. Modernist artists try to capture sense of fragmentation in the post-industrial revolution, post-darwin, wwi, rise of fascism situation. Tone of lament, nostalgia for eternal verities lost and loss of visionary ideal of enlightenment. Postmodernism inherits modernist ideas about fragmentation, of the unreliability of realist literature, of resistance to coherent chronology but into that mix goes other stuff that change the sense of fragmentation and angst. This is the way it is not lamenting. 1960"s france, 1970"s 80"s continues to spread. The loss of eternal verities and universal truths that modernism mourns is reinforced by spread of post-structuralist ideas.
