CDNS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Law Breakers, Soltyrei, Voyeurism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CDNS 1000
• Professor: Richard Nimijean

Document Summary

Identity becomes even more separated from traditional markers. Understanding the relationship between reality television and nationalism. Postmodernity as definition of age we live in. Definition: theoretical way of looking at the world; the age in which we live, we live possibly in a postmodern age. Jean-francois lyotard, postmodernism is marked by a crisis of knowledge. A moment when our systems of knowledge start to fall apart. The modern era is all about finding unity, trying to figure out different ways that we can group different sets of people. The nation is a modern frame, bringing people together, figuring out how groups of people relate to one another. The nation in this way is a metanarrative, we belong to a nation, we"re surrounded by people who think like us, look like us etc. Metanarratives, like the nation, always look to eradicate difference, look for all the way people are the same and unified; ex.