GS201 Chapter Notes -Postmodernity, Jean Baudrillard
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Post modernism is the shift from modernism and the incorporation of a dynamic, self questioning world. The combination of the old and new to create new ideology (things that don"t belong together). Modernism rejects the past to build a new. The first order is representation of the real (ex. The second order is simulation of the fantasy land (ex disneyland) blurs the lines between reality and representation (ex. Dinosaurs portrayed in documentaries) they fill the idea and partial knowledge of what something should be like although they are not necessarily based upon a reality. In these two the idea of real still exists. The third order is simulation producing the hyperreal. The model (ex. map/ etc) precedes the real. It is a created land that blurs reality with fantasy by bringing childhood dreams to life- the ideas portrayed in childhood become real in this world. It is the simulation of the fantasy land brought to the extreme.
