Themes of Postmodernism

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Themes of Postmodernism
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ModernArchitecture

• Seagram
• Building
• 1958

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PostmodernArchitecture

• ATT Headquarters
• (now Sony Building)
• 1984

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Multivalent in its Environment

• A univalent work or building attempts to refer
  only to itself. A multivalent building reaches
  out to the rest of its environment and makes
  different associations. This ensures that a work
  will have multiple resonances, and different
  readings.
• Jenks in Postmodernism The New Classicism in
  Art and Architecture

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From Hybridity and Back

• Pre-Modern (antiquity 1800s)
• Unintentional Hybridity
• Contagious Magic, Imitative Magic
• Culture Nature
• Ideas Things
• Present Past
• Modernity (1800s 1960s)
• Intentional Categories
• Postmodernity (1960s Present)
• Intentional Hybridity

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Postmodernity is Modernity but pushes it further

• The End of History
• There will never be a resolution
  (utopia/dystopia)
• Capitalism won
• The End of Truth
• No social reality, only representation and
  simulacra
• No more critical distance
• The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
• Baudrillard
• Multiculturalism
• Female circumcision is acceptable, Georgia is
  fine
• The End of The End (no more dustbins of
  history)
• There is nothing special about the present

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Reality is a Game

• The matrix has its roots in primitive arcade
  games. Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination
  experienced daily by billions of legitimate
  operators, in every nation, by children being
  taught mathematical concepts. A graphic
  representation of data abstracted from banks of
  every computer in the human system. Unthinkable
  complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace
  of the mind, clusters and constellations of data.
  Like city lights, receding
• Neuromancer by William Gibson 1984

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The World is a Text

• Neo Is that...Cypher The Matrix? Yeah.Neo Do
  you always look at it encoded?Cypher Well you
  have to. The image translators work for the
  construct program. But there's way too much
  information to decode the Matrix. You get used to
  it. I...I don't even see the code. All I see is
  blonde, brunette, red-head

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