Summary Of "Postmodernity" By Fredric Jameson: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

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POSTMODERNITY
Postmodernism and consumer society

The concept of Postmodernism is not universally accepted.
Most postmodernists appear as specific reactions against the established forms of higher Modernism: against this or that Modernism that dominates in painting, or music, etc.
This makes it difficult to describe Postmodernism as a coherent totality, because its unity does not exist in itself, but in the same Modernism that it tries to displace.
Another characteristic of Postmodernism is that there seem to be no clear boundaries between its various representatives. For example, there is no clear boundary between mass culture and higher culture. It is also remarkable the disappearance of contours between the categories of gender and discourse, and their fusion in the so-called "contemporary theory". A few decades ago there was a technical discourse of professional philosophy (Sartre's great systems, phenomenology, analytical philosophy, etc.) in which it was still possible to differentiate the multiple disciplines: for example, to differentiate sociology from political science, or literary criticism. On the contrary, today, we have a type of writing called simply "theory", which is the totality of the things that we have named or none of them at the same time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Dec 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201817312

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Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Summary Of Postmodernity By Fredric Jameson

UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Published by BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU, 2021.

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SUMMARY OF POSTMODERNITY BY FREDRIC JAMESON

First edition. December 30, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU.

ISBN: 979-8201817312

Written by MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU.

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Jameson, Fredric

POSTMODERNITY

Postmodernism and consumer society

The concept of Postmodernism is not universally accepted.

Most postmodernists appear as specific reactions against the established forms of higher Modernism: against this or that Modernism that dominates in painting, or music, etc.

This makes it difficult to describe Postmodernism as a coherent totality, because its unity does not exist in itself, but in the same Modernism that it tries to displace.

Another characteristic of Postmodernism is that there seem to be no clear boundaries between its various representatives. For example, there is no clear boundary between mass culture and higher culture. It is also remarkable the disappearance of contours between the categories of gender and discourse, and their fusion in the so-called contemporary theory. A few decades ago there was a technical discourse of professional philosophy (Sartre's great systems, phenomenology, analytical philosophy, etc.) in which it was still possible to differentiate the multiple disciplines: for example, to differentiate sociology from political science, or literary criticism. On the contrary, today, we have a type of writing called simply theory, which is the totality of the things that we have named or none of them at the same time.

The author uses the term Postmodernism as a concept that allows correlating the emergence of new formal features in culture with the origin of a new type of social life, which is frequently called modernization, consumer society or post-industrial society. This new stage of capitalism can be traced back to the US boom in the late 1940s and early 1940s, or to the emergence of the Fifth Republic in France in 1958.

The 1960s mark a transition, a time in which the new world order (neocolonialism, computer science, green revolution, etc.) occupies the space of that capitalism, at the same time that it experiences its own contradictions and external resistance. Here Jameson outlines some of the ways in which the new Postmodernism manifests the inner truth of this social order born of late capitalism. However, the author limits his description to two of his important traits, named by him: pastiche and schizophrenia.

The PASTICHE, like the PARODY, resorts to the imitation of other styles, more precisely their twists. This is clearly seen in the parodies made on modern literature. Modern writers are characterized by an unmistakable style, which makes them easily individualized. The parody takes advantage of this fact, and takes over its styles to build an imitation that mocks the original. However, a good parodist must have a certain sympathy for the original in order to capture its style.

The effect of this device is to make a mockery of the private nature of these