Postmodern Ideas
1. We no longer have any sense of the difference between real things and images of them, or real experiences and simulations of them.
2. The distinction between media and reality has collapsed, and we now live in a ‘reality’ defined by images and representations – a state of simulacrum.
3. Postmodernism rejects the idea that any media product or text is of any greater value than another. All judgments of value are merely taste.
4. Culture ‘eats itself’ and there is no longer anything new to produce or distribute.
5. All ideas of ‘the truth’ are just competing claims – or discourses – and what we believe to be the truth at any point is merely the ‘winning’ discourse.
6. Postmodern texts are said to be intertextual and self-referential – they break the rules of realism to explore the nature of their own status as constructed texts.
7. In the postmodern world, media texts make visible and challenge ideas of truth and reality, removing the illusion that stories, texts or images can ever accurately or neutrally reproduce reality or truth
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