Introduction As Second Life is a virtual world game where the borders of the real world and fiction are blurred, between art and culture, economy and high culture. Thus making Second Life a valid and clear characteristic of Postmodernism. A descriptive essay is drawn on the point that second life is a clear distinction in Postmodernism. The essay discusses modernization, post modernization, and the core characteristics of Post modernization such as Reflexive Post modernization, Implosion, Aestheticism
Postmodernism can be described as “a diverse, unstable concept that has denoted particular aesthetic approaches in literary criticism, art, film, theatre and architecture” (Ghirardo 1996: 7). It is a period that moved away from Modernism and rejected Modernisms ideologies (Ghirardo 1996 : 8).Modernism was a “response to the growing complexity of the world” (Riley 2003: 378) and the design aimed to “use industrial processes to create objects with integrity that simplified and dramatized everyday life”
Accordingly, postmodernism does not apply to the field of philosophy or history, is not associated with an ideology does not seek and does not assert any truths. Postmodernism is seen as a reaction to modernist cult of the new, as well as an elite reaction to mainstream culture, as the polycentric state of ethical-aesthetic paradigm. Postmodernism is also considered as a reaction to all-out commercialization of culture, as the official
effects it had modern civilization, and against bourgeois values. Modernism cannot be pinned down precisely to one era nor is it possible to speak of a single form of ‘modernism’. Modernist often experimented with multiple styles, questioning academic art for its lack of freedom, they never wanted to feel complacent in one style, from cubism to constructivism, surrealism to expressionism and so on. Although modernist tended not stick to one style of creation they did have a certain
term ‘postmodernism’. In exploring the dynamic of such a term in day to day living, it was considered that postmodernism is “very knowing and self reflexive” (O’Shaughnessy & Stadler, 2012). O’Shaughnessy describes postmodernism “to be built on knowledge of the world, knowledge of media products, and knowledge of countless theories and critiques of society, modernity and the media”. Critique can take many forms such as a sound or reasoned argument, satire, irony, or parody, and abstract art and philosophical
Postmodernism is a complicated term, or set of ideas, one that has only emerged as an area of academic study since the mid-1980s. Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of disciplines or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, fashion, and technology. It's hard to locate it temporally or historically, because it's not clear exactly when postmodernism begins. BACKGROUND History on Modernism
work, Zaha Hadid wanted to complement the ideas of both modernism and postmodernism into her designs. She dedicates the left side of the gallery to her modernist style of architecture, and the right portion of the galley to
society with its postmodern era of changes that are taking place.” Through a variety of certain philosophical and theological writings, Postmodernism was conceived in the late 1800s and birthed in the 1920s. Nevertheless, this movement in the church did not make its way to the forefront until the 1970s and 1980s, coming into its prime in the 1990s. Postmodernism shifted the presupposition of life politically in governments and religiously in Neo-Christianity. It may also be observed that in 1979
In Postmodernism and Consumer Society, Fredric Jameson proposes the idea of pastiche as a new component of postmodernism. Although both mimic and twitch other styles, different from parody, pastiche remains neutral, devoid of ulterior motive or satirical impulse, i.e. it is satisfied with the appropriation of previous fashions or styles, without attempt to mock or critique them. Based on the death of subject and the impossibility of parody, the notion of pastiche, however, arouses the question about
In her writings on feminist art, Jayne Wark has argued that it is not necessarily the presence of a feminist intention behind art that is important, but rather the political implications of the art and whether or not these implications engage in a feminist discourse. Artists who use “performance to bring an awareness of feminist concerns to the practice of art making, […] explicitly propose the idea that art could be a form of political science.” The issues and ideas behind many of Intan Rafiza’s