Jean
Baudrillard’s – Explained in 1 Minute
Jean
Baudrillard is a 20th Century philosopher, his most famous work
being Simulacra and the Hyper Real. Simulacra is the process in which a
representation of something comes to replace the thing which is actually being
represented. The representation becomes more important than the real thing. Furthermore,
Hyperreality is the division between ‘real’ and simulation has collapsed,
therefore an illusion of an object is no longer possible because the real
object is no longer there. An example is celebrities who reach a point at which
every aspect of their lives is taken care of by someone else who are said to be
surrounded by the hyper real world. They lose the ability to interact with people
on a normal level and ‘normal’ people are considered to follow these icons and
try to copy. This is a common case in which someone has become more engaged in
the hyper real than the actual real world.
Fredric
Jameson – Explain in 5 Minutes
Fredric
Jameson put forward that postmodernity is the merging of all discourse into an undistinguishable
whole, being the result of the colonisation of the cultural sphere which had
retained at least partial autonomy during the prior modernist era. He was a
follower of Adorno and Horkheimer’s analysis of the cultural industry, Jameson
discussing his critical analysis of film, narrative and visual arts alongside
his philosophical work.
Jameson
has two well-known theories based on the characterisation of postmodernism
being; pastiche and historicity. He argued that parody was replaced by pastiche
(collage of juxtaposition without a normative ground). He also argued that
postmodernity suffers from a crisis in historicity
“There no longer seems to be an organic
relationship between the American history we learn from school and the lived,
current experience of everyday life.”
Explaining simply Jameson believed that
history was a reputation of itself and so history itself is lost, with no originality
as copies are created upon copies.
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