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    A Postmodern Bore Imagine, if you will, a world where everyone was the same, where your neighbors had the same clothes as you did, the same kind of dog, and the same color house as you did. A world where everyone looked like everyone else, behaved the same, and thought the same. A world characterized by total and complete conformity through assimilation, incorporation, and deindividualization. A world where an elite cadre of individuals determined the very shape of reality itself. This world is

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    consider the postmodern worldview and its popular relativistic claims alongside of my theistic worldview where God almighty exist and as such, has revealed Himself to the world. For the postmodern worldview, the ideas and behaviors of man are more of a perception of what reality is and not an absolute. Phillips, Brown, and Stonestreet (2008) refer to postmodernism this way, “The focus of postmodernism is on how we perceive and how we describe what the world is” (p.53). Further, the postmodern interpretations

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    Postmodern art decided to make revolutionary break with past and questioned previous theories known as “big narratives” of art, politics, economics and overall culture in order to create new theories. The big part of postmodern theory deals with the belief of preexistence of the art all around us. The artist is the one who can recognize these elements of art around as and synthesize them into the art work. This art work becomes object of interpretation which inevitably varies among different generations

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    Postmodern self - Tattoing - During the past decades, tattoing and piercings have become more and more popular through people of all ages. Most of them started embracing this form of art regardless of its meaning or background. Perhaps the most important change has been the transformation of tattooing from the ostensibly „deviant” practice, to the popular – cultural phenomenon it is today. The first criteria sociologists use to define this is as constituting or causing a kind of social harm. Since

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    The image above illustrates how the director subtly responds to his own work. It is an example of postmodern irony and the ‘new sincerity’ because it serves as a subversive function, as Moonrise Kingdom (2012) makes a critique about the characters in Bottle Rocket (1996). It happens at the beginning of the film and it immediately establishes the type of roles the adults and the children play. The congruity between the two films is the collection of bottle rockets on the desk. The incongruity comments

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    The use of irony in the novel also contributes to its postmodernism. Many postmodernists treat serious subjects jovially to distance themselves from the difficult subject. They evoke black humor and different types of irony to offer critics of society and to display how society should not fear dark and somber things. DeLillo sprinkles irony all throughout his story using it even at the most serious of times. He uses it to show how the characters should not fear death and how the characters ignore

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    I learnt of the changes as I shared a meal with my friends after they voted. The terror and despair we each felt reminded me of the hyper reality Baudrillard foretold in his works about the postmodern society. In Simulation and Simularca, Baudrillard cites the evidentiary changes observable in the postmodern era, marked mainly by the emergence of the simulation society (McQueen, 2014, p.8). The defining aspect Baudrillard notes of this period is the subjection, acceptance and adaptation of the hyper

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    working around the New York and Los Angeles area most of his life. He lives in Los Angeles where he has a studio for him to continue his work. Style of Art/ Period in History Mark Tansey is a postmodern artist. Postmodern art is a Twentieth century movement that is quite opposite from modern art. Postmodern is where artists use realistic

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    three song artists, YouTube and social media has brought fame and fortune. Although it has taken more than a few Facebook likes to get to the top, these artists can attribute most of their fame to the power of social media. Postmodern Jukebox Headed by Scott Bradlee, Postmodern Jukebox started in 2009. At the time, Scott Bradlee was struggling to make ends meet as a jazz musician in New York City.

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    very unique era within American literature. In previous time periods authors wrote very structured eventful stories that would often relate to the most common themes of the time, however Postmodernism completely defied this formula. In most cases Postmodern stories do not have story arcs nor do they have common themes. At most, the Post era can be bound by very vague similarities. Most of the stories are conveyed through streams of conscious, which is essentially using an unedited snippet of someone's

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