Postmoderism: Notes from 2nd Lecture (28/09/2011)

•  Contrasting 2 Metaphors: Modernity can be compared to Transparency (something you look through)Postmodernity is a Mirror (something you are looking at and seeing yourself reflecting)
• Mise en abyme: Placing to infinity (the visual experience yo get when you are placed between two mirrors)
• Modernity has been haunted by a myth of Transparency.
• Enlightment: The project of dispelling darkness, fear and superstition.
• Look up Micrographia, Robert Hooke, 1665
• Transparency is clean like crystal,it is not holding secrets.
• Look up Villa Savoye, Le Corbasier (A transparent structure which is open and true to everyone)
• Structuralism (linguistics, narratology)
• Concept (Signified), Sound/ Image (Signifier)
• Look up Rene Magritte (languages are opaque)
• A meaning of a word is captured by its difference from other words. 
• Look up Cleude Strauss, 1908-2009, Anthropologist (He was interesten in what was deriving the rituals)
• Collective consciousness exists and the myths come to life 
•  Poststructuralism: Meaning is out there but isn't transparent as language isn't pure. Language is packed with cultural bias.
• Jaques Derrida, The Theory of Deconstruction (How to interrogate the Transparency)
• Objectivity is Impossible: We are trapped at looking at ourselves
• Levi-Strauss: Your culture is telling you what you are.
• Inception: It talks about the Quest and that everything is layered.