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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Postmodern condition"”.
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The Postmodern Condition and the Commodification of Cuisine
<p>In the postmodern condition and the commodification of cuisine, the theory of Jean Francois Lyotard is used to define the postmodern condition. Using the seven common themes found in postmodernism, a textural analysis of cultural artifacts is undertaken of the equal representation, multiplicity …
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A Critique of the Urban Mission of the Church in the Light of an Emerging Postmodern Condition
… the paradigm shift from the modern era to a postmodern condition. Both movements have remarkable implications for the mission of the church in urbanized, postmodernizing societies. Shaped by the modern worldview, the church is now further ostracized by the postmodern condition.</p> <p>While …
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A critique of the logic of consumption in postmodern architecture : the museum as a case study
In constructing a distinctive polemic, postmodern architecture presented itself as a reaction to the modem movement, embodying both its negation and transcendence. In the ongoing debate over the definition of postmodernity as a cultural condition, the position of negation continues to come under …
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Nature, Death, and Spirituality in the Work of David Wojnarowicz
… cyborg protagonists evoked key elements of the postmodern condition: a fragmented sense of identity, an alienating loss of organic coherence, and an irrevocable disconnectedness from prior history.
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Muriel Spark's postmodernism
This study explores the shifting notions of postmodernism developed through Muriel Spark’s fiction, and thereby clarifies this artist’s own postmodernism. I use Jean-François Lyotard’s definition of the notion in his The Postmodern Condition (1979), that there is no grand narrative, as my starting …
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"Believe in these things": magical realism's postmodern use of religious language
… of “effacement” and Jean-François Lyotard’s “postmodern condition” to investigate the spread of the magical realist genre and techniques beyond its postcolonial beginnings and into a postmodern means to insert an element of the unknown back into a scientifically bound, prosaic reality. These …
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Videocentric criticism, postmodernism and the deconstruction of television
… criticism; Chapter one assesses the modern and postmodern condition. Philosophy from the Greek and modern Enlightenments suggests that Western society's videocentrism is a developing process originating in these periods. It then addresses modernity and postmodernity. Postmodern cultural …
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Not the Whole Story: Narrative Responses to Contemporary Globalization
… These composite narrative forms complicate postmodern narrative and require that we rethink the postmodern condition in terms of the diverse influences and experiences of globalization. Early chapters analyze novels centrally concerned with globalization as well as others presenting …
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The Impeachment of Census 2000
… not fit the social, political and organizational conditions of postmodernity. The orientation of the study is toward public administration as political process; a political process which reflects the postmodern condition. Postmodern tendencies in culture and society are characterized by a …
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Labyrinths : navigating Daedalus' legacy : the role of labyrinths in selected contemporary fiction
… the interrogation of the late twentieth-century postmodern condition.
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La condición posmoderna y el absurdo en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.
… This thesis analyzes the intersection of the postmodern condition and the absurd in the short stories "Chac Mool" (1954) by the Mexican Carlos Fuentes (1928), "Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes" (1972) by the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez (1928) and "El ángel caído" (1986) by the …
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The schlemiel and anomie : the fool in society
… relation to the contemporary Western world, or Postmodern society.To achieve this aim the study is divided into three sections. The first deals with traditional perspectives on the schlemiel, examining prior definitions and gives a brief historically linear overview. Key examples are given to …
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Living on the Edge of Burnout: Defamiliarizing Neoliberalism Through Cyberpunk Science Fiction
… draws from Fredric Jameson's diagnosis of postmodernism as the logic of late capitalism, using Jameson's spatial pastiche, schizophrenic temporality, and waning of affect, along with Jameson's characterization of Baudrillard's simulacrum to interpret postmodern cultural artifacts. For many …
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
… from the turn of the twentieth century to the postmodern era. My second chapter addresses feminism of the Progressive Era and argues that focusing on productive discourse systematically disempowers women. The Progressive Era is primarily imagined as a period of social and labor reform. As such, …