Postmodernism

There are many factors associated with postmodernism. These include, Simulacra and simulation, visual cultures, reflexivity, pastiche, parody, and also postmodernism in pop culture. These factors make up the many differences associated with postmodernism in all different ways. Postmodernism has many different views on the world, all of which make up a more complex ideology of the world today versus what was seen to be modern in previous times. Postmodernism is a difficult concept to grasp when looking at it through politics, philosophies and also world movements but in art it is something more of a system of "borrowing" from what was once modern and creating a mix of more different styles borrowed from previous styles to create a jaded and sophisticated experience rather that the norm.
When we compare the difference between postmodernism and modernity this can be very complex as well. Modernity was the very beginning, starting in the early eighteenth century when things were just starting to be created and looked at as modern. Urban centers and industrial societies increased with mechanization and automation and brought about the anxiety and fear of change into the public's eye. The beginning of modern times, also modernity, created the fear but also the beginning of today's ever changing era. As things went into the nineteenth and twentieth century, lets not forget the twenty-first, things became more of a replication of the era of modernity. Things became bigger and better and brought about the notion of postmodernism. Now, there is no fear of change, only drastic levels of change or constant change, to make things bigger, better and even non realistic to the eye such as images, codes, and advertising.
Postmodernism and modernity intersect because one superseded the other. Without modernity we wouldn't have come to postmodernism. During the time of modernity when the period of industrialization, social, economical and political times just began, turned into the flow of Internet and new digital technologies that brought about postmodernism and also the expansion of change in the world. Postmodernism came after the height of modernity so there for they intersect with each other. The concept of postmodernism is tied together with styles in art, literature, architecture, and also popular culture which also engages in reflexivity, bricolage, pastiche, and all mixes of styles. These terms were coined when postmodernism came about.
Simulacra and also simulation were terms that became famously used by the French theorist Jean Baudrillard. The term means that we have taken parts in the world and also media, and turn them into things that are not real to life but a replication of it. I have experienced this when I went on a trip to Disney World. In Disney, they have a park called Epcot which is very famous for their restaurants they have transformed into different countries around the world. Now, even though you are in Florida, you can still go to Italy for dinner where they have an excellent replicated restaurant of what Italy looks like. They have famous wines, homemade pasta, and Italian paintings. This made up place would be considered simulacra because it is really not Italy, but it is replicated for us to enjoy what Italy would be like.
reflexivity was both in modernity and also postmodernism. In modernity this was the practice of making viewers aware of the means of production, in plays and movies, to see different characteristic of what we were actually seeing. Reflexivity in the postmodern era put more into films, art, and even photographs to catch the attention of the viewer by adding jokes and many differences in visual texts creating irony in media. Media producers offer techniques of disillusionment to the viewers by creating different forms of intellectual play and visions for viewers to enjoy. This also happens with images and how they are created by adding different text or added forms of pleasure to the image. This has become very popular in visual culture. Reflexivity touches many bases in our text and is associated also with active looking.