That anything can be art, and anything can deserve to reach an audience, and culture 'eats itself' as there is no longer anything new to produce or distribute.
2. What does post modernism suggest about the ideas of truth or reality - how is this linked with the media?
The distinction between media and reality has collapsed, and we now live in a reality defined by images and representations. Images refer to each other and represent each other as reality rather than some 'pure' reality that exists before the image represents it - the state of hyper reality. All the ideas of the truth are just competing claims and what we believe to be the truth at any point is merely the 'winning' discourse.
3. Who were the 2 big thinkers and what concept do their theories share?
Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard offered different versions of either post modernism or post-modernity. They share a belief that the ideas of truth need to be deconstructed so that we can challenge dominant ideas that people claim as truth which Lyotard describes as Grand Narratives.
4. Give an example of 3 Grand Narratives or Meta Narratives.
5. What is significant about Disneyland and Simulacrum?
There is an idea that there is no longer a distinction between reality and representing image or simulacrum. Baudrillard claimed that Disneyland is the best example for understanding how our reality works in the postmodern world - a place which is at the same time a real physical space but also clearly fictional, representational world.
6. How is our understanding of the events of 9/11 hyper real?
Baudrillard sees the events of 9/11 in terms of image - this is what we recall when mentioned, the endless TV repeats of the live pictures. The 9/11 event instantly passed into electronic transmission, and this was a global media event, accelerating us into a state of hyper reality. We cannot distinguish the representation of the events on the TV from the actual events.
7. What is significant about the Matrix as an example of Baudrillard's ideas of simulation and hyper reality?
The subject matter is post modern but the style of the film making is self referential which means that is has resemblance to video games, other films ad graphic novels, rather than to reality is deliberate as is the use of bullet time as a hyper real filmic approach.
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