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Media Crit Spr2010 Session21

Some vocabulary
- Modernism
  - cast as a straw man against which postmodernism is constructed
  - but open to variant ideological interpretation
    - a heroic period of experimentation
    - a period of profound elitism
  - either way, generally viewed as a move from realistic depiction to abstract and highly symbolic depiction
    - that foregrounds language and technique
    - across many media (art, music, film, architecture)
- Postmodernism
  - a reaction to modernism
- Semiotics of excess
  - when we overuse symbols
  - we devalue them
- Ironic articulation of the "already said" (Eco)
  - rearticulation and appropriation of signs
- Intertextual references
  - Excessive cross referencing of things already known
- Hyperconsciousness
  - the text as a hyperaware cultural artifact
  - realized, in many ways, in web cross referencing
  - but increasingly visible in a broad array of intertextual references
- Hyperconsious irony
  - self-conscious self-referencing within a text
  - both
    - highlights text as social construction
    - and devalues the image
- Subjectivity free of subjugation
  - we are neither free agents
  - nor hypodermically controlled robots
  - so long as we are aware of media manipulations
  - we can create our own identity, diversified by our diverse media experiences
- Radical eclecticism
  - Juxtaposition of "incompatible" styles, materials, and conventions
  - Television is a site of multiple intersecting conflicting conventions.
  - This is often the mode of postmodern content creation
- "Late" capitalism
  - the endless creation of new markets
  - by appropriating signs to construct visions of success and happiness
  - and sell products by making consumption the scene of happiness

-- Last edited April 28, 2010

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