Tag: Postmodernism

• The Weekly Roundup: 19/03/17

  

  Sundays are for lying in bed in the morning as sun creeps around the edge of the blinds and wondering where the hell all of the week went to. Well, that and catching up on all that juicy, juicy content that you missed out on. Another entry in the Beyond Postmodernism series looked at Post-Truth […]

  E Warren

  March 19, 2017

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  Analysis, Beauty and the Beast, Cinema, Film, Games, Gaming, Get Out, Kong Skull Island, Language, Linguistics, Media, Monster Factory, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Review, The Taxpayers

• Beyond Postmodernism: The Apple Store

  

  Okay, let’s start here by outlining the supermarket as the ultimate postmodern shopping experience. A dizzying and purposefully confusing arrangement of choice, designed to distance ourselves from the physical reality of the products we wish to purchase. Which instead encourages us to facilitate our interaction with the world through recognisable branding, as brand awareness is […]

  E Warren

  February 26, 2017

  Analysis, Philosophy

  Analysis, Apple, Apple Store, Beyond Postmodernism, Critical Theory, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Shopping

• Beyond Postmodernism

  

  Postmodernism is a trap. Linguistically it defies definition, that post- positions it as a critical framework that can only be defined by its relationship to modernism. It also presents itself as the end game of criticism, how does a culture evolve from a postmodern one? Would that be a post-postmodern world, it’s too linguistically clumsy […]

  E Warren

  February 15, 2017

  Analysis, Philosophy

  Critical Theory, Postmodernism