SMC219Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Postmodern Architecture, The Gutenberg Galaxy, The Transparent Society
4 Nov 2012
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Fact: we are living in this age of communication (electronic media) We live in a global village - globalized environment, some implications or consequences. Media are environmental agents, they change the contents, create another environment in which you must use different rules. Notion of postmodernism was a beginning of a fight (fighting to try and make some ideas comes across) Because we are talking about elements of life, our own contemporary environment, made of air, we breathe postmodernism. Definition* guardiani"s definition is linked to media. Post modernity/ post modernism= electronic age, period of electronics, we know when it started, but do not know when it will finish. 73 linda hutcheon: wrote several books, most important book a poetics of. Her success was due to the fact that she was a very scrupulous surveyor of all the theories under postmodernism saying it is the age of acceptance, all free to tell own story, everyone can give own interpretation.
