Tag Archives: postmodernism

Article about the “other”

Posted on March 25, 2012 by

One of the themes in the class is “the other”.  This article is a perfect example of the other and how it is involved in the media.  This also ties in with postmoderism because the media is a way of … Continue reading →

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Scatology and Consumerism

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

One of the funniest reoccurring jokes in Westward is Tom Sternberg’s intense fear of using the public restroom. The best moment in this uncomfortably fidgeting subplot is when the narrator describes, more or less, why Tom is so badly stricken: … Continue reading →

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David Foster Wallace on “Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way”

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

“My idea in ‘Westward’ was to do with metafiction what Moore’s poetry or like DeLillo’s Libra had done with other mediated myths. I wanted to get the Armageddon-explosion, the goal metafiction’s always been about, I wanted to get it over … Continue reading →

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Post Postmodern Filmmaking

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

This clip from the TV show Community reminded me a lot of some of the class discussions we’ve been having, especially our discussions about Benjamin.

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Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro”

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Though I don’t think this is one of her better songs (and there are some other problems w/ it. . .), I’ve always been compelled by Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro” video in terms of many of the issues we were talking … Continue reading →

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Seeing the Grand Canyon Where it Is Not

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

In the most recent issue of Harper’s Magazine (324.1940 [January 2012]) Jeremy Miller writes about the first U.S. led expedition to the Grand Canyon in 1857 in his article “The Long Draw: On the Trail of an Artistic Mystery in … Continue reading →

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“Postmodernism is Dead”

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

Here’s an article on the exhibition in London Amy was talking about yesterday by Edward Docx (gotta be a pseudonym), titled “Postmodernism is Dead,” courtesy of Prospect.

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Postmodernism and the Social Novel

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

The term postmodern is much like the term irony. Both are part of the language of everyday experience and yet each term is awfully abused, overused, and misunderstood. Often I have trouble understanding what postmodernism really signifies. In film it … Continue reading →

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Postmodernism as Liberty Valance

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

Here is the moment from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962), in two parts, that Jonathan Lethem discusses in his essay “Postmodernism as Liberty Valance.” Part 1 Part 2

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