Postmodernism celebrates the image rather than the real: style over substance
Baudrillard discusses blurring between real and not real.
Everything is a sign, a simulacra (pretending to be real). simulacra- go into pub made to look old, new pub, new decorations that look old. Simulacra= fake but pretending to be real. i.e. disney land.
According to Baudrilliard, nothing is real, everything is surface
The gulf war didn’t exist- Jean Baudrillard book
Hyperreal- so real it’s not real
In Madonna’s like a prayer video, religious metanarratives are broken. Jesus is a black man who is open to temptation, Madonna is sexualised and posing within a church, crosses are burned. Stigmata becomes an aesthetic.
No comments:
Post a Comment