Starter: Simulation and Emptyness

Society of the Spectacle - work of Marxism, social networks mediate your relationships, consumerism/product, style over substance, POPULARITY, abandonment of morals = NO BELIEF (Lyotard)

Hyper-reality - reality that has been exaggerated, distorted, enhanced.

Simulacra - inability to distinguish between reality and simulation. Artificial etc.

Voyeurism - looking in order to gain pleasure, power, sexualised

Panopticon - prison under constant surveillance

1950's

MODERNISM - Traditional Values
After the war, soldiers came back to find that they were still under rules, government, totalarilism.

1960's
POST-MODERNISM
Strikes
Hippies - Peace, Love & Drugs (Human Kindness)

1980's

Tron + Video Games
Simulacra

2000's
Broadband Internet
Beginning of simulation replacing relationships


2015 - NOW -

Contemporary media + culture

2025 - CONCLUSION (Black Mirror)

Modernism becomes weaker, post-modernism becomes stronger.

HOMEWORK:-

Pre-reading 1: Article on Black Mirror
http://leighmediaa2pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/15-million-merits-postmodernism-essay.html

Prep work 2: Essay Plan on Case Study 1 ready for next lesson
Recap on Learning Case Study 1: Ralph

Lyotard - the lack of belief in the 'Grand Narrative' (Modernist Ideology/Theories accepted as Truth)