Postmodernism

Postmodernism- a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or super seeding, MODERNISM.
Team America

PUPPETS
'old style technique-deliberately 'retro'- Slap in the face to the Thunderbirds [Gerry Anderson] -deliberately 'bad'




Retrospective Styling- Fredric Jameson

Nostalgic for the future vs. Clash of registers
          'Comfroting'               'Kicks nostalgia's ass'

Linda Hutcheon-'Double Encoding'
-Pays homage to the Thunderbirds 60's & 70's
-Creates a travesty- doing the opposite to the homage [Taking the piss]

Noise, Cyborgs and reduntant conversations!!!

Communication is a process whereby information is enclosed in a package and is channeled and imparted by a sender to a receiver via some medium. The receiver then decodes the message and gives the sender a feedback. All forms of communication require a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, however the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication in order for the act of communication to occur. Communication requires that all parties have an area of communicative commonality. There are verbal means using language and there are nonverbal means, such as body language, sign language, paralanguage, haptic communication, chronemics, and eye contact, through media, i.e., pictures, graphics and sound, and writing. [DEFINITION FROM WIKIPEDIA]

Personally i think that the definition above basically explains what i think communications means but just includes more 'high-tech' vocab.

The communication model was created by Claud Shannon & Warren Weaver in 1948.
It basically explains that there are 4/5 main elements of successfull communication, transmitter, signal channel, medium, another signal channel and finally a reciever.

1. An information source, which produces a message.
2. A transmitter, which encodes the message into signals
3. A channel, to which signals are adapted for transmission
4. A receiver, which 'decodes' (reconstructs) the message from the signal.
5. A destination, where the message arrives.

 Conversations go back and forth in a [vicious] cybernetic feedback loop that was later on dicovered by Norbet Wiener. Also around this whole [conversation] communiation process there is something weird goin on called noise which is an interference with decoding the message sent over from the encoder, the most common type of noise is environmental noise which could be anything from construction sites near the convo to trying to have a conversation at teh DJ booth.

In a nutshell information is a message that recieved and understood.
There are 2 types of information:
                    1. Redundant- Predictable, establishes common ground, point of contact/information 'Hello, how have you been'
                     2. Entropic- Unpredictable, where infroamtion is conveyed, new learning experience 'The new HTC Desire Z has a where are you app.'

Unfortuanatley there has to be a balance between both redundancy and entropy. With too much redundancy the conversation would be dull, with too much entropy the conversation would be incomprehensible.


hhhhmmmm, thata why alot of people don't understand me when i talk.....

That 'REAL' stuff

 Realism is a close resembelence to what is real; fidelity of representation, rednering the presence of details of the real thing or scene. Oxford Dictionary online.


I believe that everyone has their own views as to what looks real or fake.






The urge to reprensent can manifest itself in attempts to represent

• the world as it is [the documentary urge]
• the world as i experience it [the confessional urge]
• the world as it can be imagined to be [the imaginative world]

there is a constant and complicated overlap between these categories.

The way i understood this is that it is very easy to say that the way i see and choose to represent the world may be seen as a 'confessional' or 'imaginative' to some one else.

Plato and his 3 theory's

1. spiritual/divine form (might be reality)
2. earthly or practical form (might be reality)
3. represented or illusory form (might be art)

THAT SEMIOTICS STUFF!!!

The theory of signs and symbols in language and the meanings they convey.

Semiotics is the process of signs being made, noticed and understood.  It involves two parts which are the Signifier and the Signified.

The Signifier is the physical form= what we see straight up
The Signified is the mental concept= what comes to mind



The sign DOG signifies D-O-G whether it’s written, spoken, typed or the physical presence of a dog that’s been filmed, photographed or drawn. Whereas the signified is the mental concept of what’s being viewed. For instance looking at the image (signifier) below we have automatically signified it’s a:

• Dog
• Scooby Doo
• 4 legged
• Long waggly tail
• Man's best friend [Shaggy]
• Dislikes Cats
• Pet

 

We all have our own understanding of what the signifier is, so what may be a dog, which is simply a pet to me, may be a religious source of high power to someone else in another culture.

GHD Twisted Fairytales

This is the evidence that i  am going to use for my essay, i think that this advert really explains INTERTEXTUALITY and its something that most if not all viewers can relate or remember from their past [mainly childhood]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT78c25YShc

Nothing is original!!

It’s taken a while for me to post this, but I can say I was excited when we had this lecture, because it was finally something I could understand and follow without a confused look on my face.

I think intertextuality means that nothing is really original, whatever idea we come up with, we have drawn ideas from previous experiences or things we have seen or heard. This is sometimes done unconsciously.

It is something I’ve always known about but I never really paid much attention to it while watching TV, watching the clips in the lecture of the Planet of the Apes [1968 and 2000 versions]  and Madagascar, the quote, 

‘Damn you damn you all to heck!!’

Really opened my eyes to how obvious intertextuality is in most of the things I’ve seen. To be honest I myself have used that phrase without out knowing the origin.

Nothing is new!!

I think it would take someone a great deal of thought to come up with something that has never been touched on, maybe if we get newborns to give us ideas,  then we might be able to create something new, but even then when they are in the womb they can hear and almost connect with what is happening in the outside world, also things that their mother go through while being pregnant,  happen to them as well, so in a sense they are kind of ‘brainwashed’ themselves.

It’s an ongoing cycle.

Nothing is original!!

Is it 'Rough Magic?' 05/10/10

Why its called 'Rough Magic' i have no idea, but when i think about it i can say that the technology that we have today is actually magical, we hardly have to do anything but we see a new world appear before our eyes. So i can say that back in the day when the first computer was created in 1801, by a guy called Joesph 'Marie' Jaquard and as always they named it after themselves so it was called the Jaquard Loom, which was a modified textile loom, that punched paper card templates which enabled the loom to create intricate patterns automatically, was actually quite magical, bearing in mind that the people in those days are used to manual labour from start to finish. Obviously these machines were not as small and compact as they are today, one machine would take up a whole room and it would only have one use 'ENIAC: Electronic Numerical Intergrator & Calculator [1946]'-the first general purpose, electronic computer., whereas today a small 10"laptop has many outputs.

All of these meta-mediums that we are taking for granted like; photography, film, art, graphic design, etc. Were all discovered back in the day and in them times you were very fortunate to even be apart of that whole movement so it could be classed as history in the making and i honestly think that was history that had alot of meaning/culture, even though we are exoeriencing our own history in the making with 'Apple & Microsoft'-technology expanding and making it easier for people to get & stay in touch from the comfort of their own homes. The history in them times had more meaning to it in a sense that a simple family picture with the old school dust flash, had more sentimental values than a picture taken off a digital camera. Basically i think as the generation carries on we are getting more lazy and even though the technology today has the aim of bringing us together, because it doesn't require alot of effort we are becoming more closer with our screens and hand helds.