Writing 2 Yijia Chen In the article, “The self in the age of Information,” Kenneth Gergen argues that under the information era, technology leads people to lose the “self” and reflect this lost on the writing. Discussing the same period, Jeremy Rifkin in the chapter “A Postmodern Stage” showed a more positive perspective about the change. To support his argument, Gergen elaborates damages in the community and institution that nurtured independent self, the direct erosion to solitary self. In the
The current social and political climate in Australia is the corollary of the postmodern age and globalisation. Postmodernity ushered in the notion of multiplicity, the destruction of universal truths and hybridity of identity and, “a more chaotic social landscape full of fluid identities and diverse social groups,” (Ward, 2003, p. 174). This was in stark contrast to the homogeneity of modernity. Modernity was built upon the concepts of universal truths, utopian visions and rationalism. This destruction
Does Martel’s Life of Pi treatment of religion give power to God or does it give power to works of fiction? Instead of giving power to the one versus the other, Martel is not trying to get the reader to believe in God, to prove his existence, but rather there is a justification of a person’s individual right to choose in believing in God. Life of Pi doesn’t try to question religion as an institution, but rather there is a focus on the debate between fact and fiction where “Martel’s position is a
Metanarratives Ritgerð til B.A.-prófs Björn Erlingur Flóki Björnsson bjornfloki@gmail.com Kt. 110982-5779 Maí 2006 Abstract This essay offers a postmodernist reading of the popular television program The Simpsons, with special regard to the postmodern theories of intertexuality, hyperreality, and metanarratives. Before delving into The Simpsons, some major theoretical aspects of postmodernism in aesthetic production are outlined. Three of the most prominent theorists of postmodernism – Lyotard
Millhauser Introduction There are few tropes that have endured and evolved as much as the labyrinth. From ancient to postmodern times, the labyrinth has evolved from a symbol of divine order to an expression of chaos. Because it is such a flexible symbol, the labyrinth has endured even as the nature of human thought has evolved. This project aims to explore the labyrinthine elements of American writer Steven Millhauser’s short fiction. The idea of the labyrinth is demonstratively present in
The term postmodernism is applied to several disciplines which include architecture, art, literature, music, film, sociology, cultural and media studies, visual arts, philosophy, history. Communications and technology. The beginning of postmodernism is quite unclear, however, it emerged as an area of academic study in mid- 1980s. "Postmodernism" is an outcome of the deep changes in social and political life style in post-industrialized societies with an attitude to question the truth and authority
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Postmodern literature has its many spokesmen. Many would agree that Kazuo Ishiguro is not the most typical representative of this somewhat anarchistic literary and social movement, but he is certainly one of its most subtle and valuable artists. He uses the principles of post modernistic writing in a very meaningful way, and only after a thorough analysis can one fully appreciate all carefully constructed and presented elements trough which he successfully
reporting ethnography is a distinct action from doing ethnography, though equally important (Clifford and Marcus 1986); that there is not only one single language or style able to convey the elusive ‘truth’ of the universe, in fact there are a multiplicity of reporting modes or voices capable of conveying ethnographic information (Rorty 1982); and thus ethnography should not be based on the conveyed ‘understanding’ of the researcher (which places him or her in a position of privileged interpreter)
Within this paper, I shall evaluate the usefulness of selected examples of Foucault’s theories from a feminist perspective. To begin, a short introduction will outline the era in which Foucault wrote, as this has been seen as influential to his work, inspiring him to move away from the former ideological ways of thinking about the world (Taylor and Vintges 2004, Mills 1997). I shall then go on to consider the changing nature of feminism, which has moved on from viewing patriarchy and men as the oppressors
The United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture: A Tool or an Obstacle to Greater Coordination? I. Introduction Peacebuilding is the phenomenon in which an array of international and national actors collaborate within various support structures in order to address the fundamental/root causes of violence, solidify peace, and avoid a relapse into conflict in fragile states. With the rise of globalization and increased interdependence among states has brought about economic growth and development;