Okay so for this blog I am going to attempt to explain the whole idea...the main things that we should have learned from the book Postmodernism for Beginners. At least the book is properly named because I am almost sure that none of us had heard of postmodernism before we read this book. Perhaps that is why the conceps are so difficult to understand.
For me, it seems a bit contradictory to try and define the whole idea behind postmodernism. I think postmodernism is an accumulation of a bunch of ideas and a bunch of cultures. This book has taught me that the each individual person lives off of their own ideas or metanarratives...we each have our own center. So many people believe different things which creates a world that is unique to each of us. We tend to follow the beliefs and the examples of those who came before us. We grow up hearing the stories of our culture and we believe them as truth. Just like in Brave New World and 1984. The people who grew up in those books came to believe what they were told without needing proof or evidence. They were extremely willing to believe what people told them. The information, in actuality, may have been false, but the people in these novels accepted them as truths. Its like no matter what actually happened, we only perceive our own knowledge as that truth. And the real truth changes everyday! We constantly have new information thrown at us so our own viewpoints can change everyday. I guess it just depends what outside influences we have shaping our thoughts and our viewpoints.
Well thats my take on Postmodernism. My whole understanding is based on the fact that we create our own understandings. Postmodernism cannot have a clear definition because the definition changes according to each individual group or person.
Friday, January 29, 2010
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