ANTH 3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Postmodern Condition, Jean Baudrillard, Simulacrum
20 Nov 2017
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Powerpoint: the tourist": the search for authenticity: Through the tourist gaze: postmodern tourism, embodied tourism. Powerpoint: modern to postmodern tourist: modern tourist. Powerpoint: the postmodern condition: the fragmentation of identity no stable sense of self (no singular reality, preoccupation with commodity consumption, the emergence of spectacle consumption". Powerpoint: spectacle consumption: de-differentiation of social realms, problematizing of signification, simulation, simulacra, two cultural developments that led to shift from modern to postmodern de- differentiation of social realms and the problematizing of signification. Spectacle consumption - de-differentiation: considering de-differentation in postmodern condition compare with structural differentiation in modernity. Powerpoint: modern culture structural differentiation: horizontal differentiation: Differentiation between social and cultural areas of society. Dispersed horizontally across society: vertical differentiation: Powerpoint: postmodern culture de-differentiation: breakdown in the distinctiveness of institutional spheres, associated conventions and values merge into one another, merging of cultural spheres: spectacle, play, economics, politics, etc.
