Reading Response #9
1. "Theorists describe postmodernism as skepticism about "master narratives" or "meta narratives"--narratives that reputedly reveal the structural basis of all narrative systems" (p. 303). 2. Simulation is a copy and simulacrum is a substitution that questions the real (p. 307). 3. "Postmodernism's reflexivity, in which the text refers to its own means of production, has its origins in modernism" (p. 313). 4. Drawn cartoons form visual construction of unthinkable events that is impossible in live film (p. 218). 5. "The world of images today consists of a huge variety of copies, parodies, replicas, reproductions, and remixes" (p. 322). 6. Pastiche is a term used to describe the culture of parody and remake (p. 325). 7. "Postmodern design and architecture have built on these changing concepts of space to reflect in self-conscious ways on design and the history and function of architecture" (p. 331). What was interest...