Postmodernism - Lecture 1, Notes and Main Points.

• “The concept of postmodernism is not widely accepted or even understood” - Fredric Jameson, The Cultural Turn

• "...few people can say with any assurance what the term actually means or involves…”  - Stuart Sim, The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism.

• Skeptical

• Relative

•  “Postmodernity is modernity without the hopes and dreams which made modernity bearable. It is a hydra-headed, decentred condition in which we get dragged along from pillow to post across a succession of reflecting surfaces…” - Dick Hebdige, Hiding In The Light.

• Post modernism is apocalyptic, schiziod, power, revolutionary, political correctness gone mad, self-obsessed, sell-out, blasphemous, dangerous, creative, unimaginative, bullshit.

• "....Since the meaning of modernism is also very confused, the reaction or departure known as ‘postmodernism’ is doubly so…” - David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity.

•  Modernism - the deliberate departure from tradition.

• Postmodernism, with all its complexity and possible excesses, is an attempt to find new and more truthful versions of the world. 

• Postmodernism is also saving the environment, recycling and multiculturism.