{"id":127,"date":"2024-03-26T11:19:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T11:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/culturaltheory\/?post_type=content&p=127"},"modified":"2024-04-03T08:27:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T08:27:23","slug":"chapter-10-postmodernism","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/culturaltheory\/chapter-resources\/chapter-10-postmodernism\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 10 – Postmodernism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Chapter 10 – Postmodernism<\/h1>\n\n\n

Postmodernism is a term current inside and outside the academic study of popular culture. It has entered discourses as different as pop music journalism and Marxist debates on the cultural conditions of late or multinational capitalism. As Angela McRobbie (1994) observes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postmodernism has entered into a more diverse number of vocabularies more quickly than most other intellectual categories. It has spread outwards from the realms of art history into political theory and onto the pages of youth culture magazines, record sleeves, and the fashion pages of Vogue. This seems to me to indicate something more than the mere vagaries of taste (13).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Before you read <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Warm-up<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Postmodernism is a controversial and ever-present notion with a certain notoriety in the cultural debate. It is also a difficult one in how it marks a shift or a departure from its preceding modernism. To understand the shift, you can watch the Modernism vs. Postmodernism video [link<\/a>] which may prepare you for the description of Postmodernism proposed in Chapter 10. After you read that chapter, think how it relates to the video and in what ways.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Preliminary questions<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Throughout Cultural Theory and Popular Culture<\/em>, reference has been made to issues which have touched, directly or indirectly, on Postmodernism.  For instance, discussions in the chapter dealing with Post-structuralism, some introductory remarks in early chapters of the book, as well as debates about sexuality and queer theory have assumed at least some basic familiarity with the concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This chapter builds on what might be, for some of you, fairly rudimentary knowledge, outlining some key debates in Postmodernism and some of the significant names that have particular relevance for the development of Cultural Studies. It is worth recapping the basic ideas of Postmodernism in order that you are confident of what it argues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you read both Chapter 10 of the textbook and the accompanying Reader<\/em> extracts, you should consider what Postmodernism is claiming in terms of meaning and the power to define.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Why is postmodernism such an important notion?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • How does postmodernism appear in many current debates? (You must have come across it!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Why and how, in your opinion, does it belong to the so-called \u201cpost\u201d theory? And how does it represent it?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • What kind of cultural transition does it denote?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    After you read: Important ideas <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Chapter 10 discusses one of the most important terms in cultural criticism: that of POSTMODERNISM. Having read Chapter 10, test your understanding of that terms with Quizzes 10.1 and 10.2, thinking of all the ideas that POSTMODERNISM resonates with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Quiz 10.1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Which is correct? (Choose between true<\/em> or false<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n