Reading Baurdillard through film: a critical analysis of The Truman Show, the matrix and Blade Runner

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Abstract

Postmodernism literally entails “after Modernism.” In the up to designated day publications, the period often denotes the heritage stage next Modernism or a heterogeneous, unorganized thoughtful action demanding Modernism. It is a period that designates a rotating issue, a rupture from the past, and the occurrence of coming across a new heritage, chronicled, and communal realm. Throughout its annals, Postmodernism has profited divergent meanings and has become a subject of long-lasting arguments in art, architecture, publications, theology, geography, anthropology, beliefs, annals, and all other parts of communal sciences, amidst other disciplines (Baudrillard, 2005, 44).

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION6

LITERATURE REVIEW9

David Harvey, The Condition Of Postmodernity9

Postmodernist heritage by Steven Connor16

MARK POSNER'S VIEWS23

DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS25

CONCLUSION32

REFERENCES34

Reading Baurdillard through film: a critical analysis of The Truman Show, the matrix and Blade Runner

Introduction

It could be said that Postmodernism started to be influential in America particularly in the 1960s. The publication the English transformation of Jean-François Lyotard's La Condition Postmoderne (The Postmodern Condition ) in 1984 brands a rotating issue in the argument round Postmodernism in the English-speaking world. Postmodernism first profited a philosophical significance in The Postmodern Condition , which blends the idea of postindustrial humanity evolved by sociologists like Daniel Bell and Alain Touraine with latest ideas on postmodern art and poststructuralist in philosophy. Further, the large leverage of Lyotard's work appears to begin from its comprehensive recount of the “new condition (Grace, 2000, 96)

In his work, Lyotard characterizes Postmodernism as incredulity in the direction of meta or impressive narratives. According to Lyotard, the onto-theological worldview of the Middle Ages in Europe was the major impressive narrative. That is to state, all facets of life were regulated and understood with esteem to the conviction in God. It was the “truth” and the pledge of universal emancipation that legitimated all communal practices, convictions, and knowledge. The Enlightenment task conveyed about the dissolution of the onto-theological worldview, by which technical, rationalist discourses profited legitimacy and restored the vintage impressive narrative. Reason became the finally better legitimacy standard in interpreting environment and in coordinating all communal practices. On the opposing, in the postmodern era, as asserted by Lyotard, conviction in one Truth or a lone, universal impressive narrative lost the surrounds of its legitimacy (Lacan, 2006, 84).

With expansion like the computerization of humanity and the commoditization of information, the administration of any impressive narrative drawn from the Enlightenment task was demolished. Discourses about truth in the data humanity or the postindustrial humanity ...