Strinati, Lyotard, Bauldrillard, Merrin

Dominic Strinati
   - Strinati defines the Post-modernism is as if we look through a mirror. Media is presented as if we see it through a mirror, what we see is what we get. 
   - As Media has taken over EVERYONES (yes everyones) lives, we go by what we see, there is no other way to define, we will never have our own "thoughts" as they would of already been done.
"Postmodernism tries to come to terms with and understand a media-saturated society. The mass media, for example, were once thought of as holding up a mirror to, and thereby reflecting, a wider social reality. Now that reality is only definable in terms of surface reflection of the mirror" (1995)
http://fordlcmedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/dominic-strinati-quotes.html


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"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. Jacques Derrida. He explains that no one is safe from the media, we need to recognise ourself and where we come form first.

Jean Francois Lyotard
‘Narratives, as we have seen, determine criteria of competence and/or illustrate how they are to be applied. They thus define what has the right to be said and done in the culture in question, and since they are themselves a part of that culture, they are legitimated by the simple fact that they do what they do.’
   - Lyotard explains that Postmodernism the metanarative has fallen into disuse and can no longer analyse the texts that have been forged from their ruins.
   - He explains that young minds can can revive wonders
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-francois-lyotard/biography/

 

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http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/lyotard.htm

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Counter argument:

Anderson (1984), Frisby (1985), and Callinicus (1985) all argue agrssivly against the idea of postmodernism being a mirror. They all argue against Lyotards argument that metanarratives, are the midwife of the postmodern theory, it doesnt affect it.

Jean Baudrillard

   -Baudrillard believes that the world is all made up, what we see is never necessarily what is real, but we are made to believe it is.
   - A good example of this would be expos of characters either from films or cartoons, we believe them to be real and join along with the fact we no its not, but we want to join in.
   - "The secret of theory is that truth does not exist." Jean Baudrillard (Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995)

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/mar/07/guardianobituaries.france

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Jean Baudrillard. Image and Representation. 2004

Merrin

   - Merrin believes that the media does not reflect reality in one bit but mealy produces it so that we can understand our existance.
 ‘Finally we have a book–length study of Baudrillard’s writing from the vantage point of media studies. Merrin is an excellent guide to what is arguably the central thread in the work of the theorist of simulations.’ – Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine

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http://mediastudies2point0.blogspot.com/ - Blog about issues



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Coutner Argument
- Jonathan Arac says "postmodernism has always been in search of tradition while pretending to innovation"
The Routledge companion to postmodernism By Stuart Sim