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Modernity and Postmodernity Sociology 250 November 26, 2013 Sociology 250 Modernity and Postmodernity November 26, 2013 1 / 46 Slouching Toward Postmodernity Fundamental Insight of Postmodernism Modernism and Postmodernism Postmodernism:

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Modernity and Postmodernity

Sociology 250 November 26, 2013

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Slouching Toward Postmodernity

Fundamental Insight of Postmodernism Modernism and Postmodernism Postmodernism: Architectural Origins and Practice A Manifesto for Postmodernism? Postmodernist Principles

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The Theory Arc

Modernity Modernism Postmodernity Postmodernism (Enlightenment)

History/Social Organization Philosophy/Thought

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Remember the Modernist Paradigm

Epistemological Hubris ⇒ Faith in Technology Mistrust of Religion, Myth, and Honor ⇒ Formal political equality Regimentation and Rationalization of Life

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A Manifesto for Modernity

All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

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Modernity and Postmodernity

Modernity Postmodernity We can know the Truth Truth is partial and contextual Big systems work well Small, local, interconnected systems Information generates power Power generates information

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What is the postmodern world like?

Fragility of big systems Fragmented experiences “Where you stand depends on where you sit” All the parts are moving at once

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Fundamental Insight of Postmodernism

Postmodernism is the first intellectual movement to assume its own historicity

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Postmodernism

n. genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism

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Postmodernism and Modernism

Irony in the term itself Dialectical relationship Arising in reaction to modernism means including many of its innovations Hypermodernism? Postmodernism builds on a modernist base

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Postmodernism: Architectural Origins

Term originally coined in architecture Architectural modernism was particularly grandiose Function over Form “A Machine for Living In” (Le Corbusier) Aesthetics of technical supremacy

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Modernist Architecture: Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, 1961

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Modernist Architecture: Apartment Building, East Berlin, 1956–58 (Le Corbusier)

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Modernist Architecture: City Plan for 3 Million (Le Corbusier)

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Modernist Architecture: Unit´ e, Marseille (Le Corbusier)

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Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House

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Real Hubris: Brasilia, Brazil, 1957–60

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Modernist Architecture: French Embassy, Brasilia (Le Corbusier)

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Mid-Modern Architecture: Mangum Hall, UNC (1922)

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Modernist Architecture: Mary Ellen Jones Building, UNC (1978)

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Modernist Architecture: Greenlaw Hall, UNC (1970)

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Modernist Architecture: Hamilton Hall, UNC (1965–72)

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Modernist Architecture: Hamilton Hall, UNC (1965–72)

Indoor view

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Postmodernist Principles

Doubt in claims to truth, objectivity, altruism Emphasis on representation as a creative process Pastiche - amalgam - Gemisch Society as a web of interconnected signs, signifying nothing Simulacrum

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Postmodern Architecture: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, 1993–97

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Postmodern Architecture: Canadian Embassy, Washington, 1986–89

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Postmodern Architecture: Walter R. Davis Library, 1984

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Postmodern Architecture: UNC Bioinformatics Building (2002)

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Postmodern Architecture: UNC School of Government (1999–2002)

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Postmodern Architecture: Hooker Research Center (2005)

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Postmodern Architecture: Hooker Research Center (2005)

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Everyday Postmodernism

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Everyday Postmodernism: Simulacrum and Simulation

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Everyday Postmodernism: Imaginary Industry

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Everyday Postmodernism: Enjoy Your Symptom!

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Everyday Postmodernism: Shared Illusory Nostalgia

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Everyday Postmodernism: Mixing Styles

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Everyday Postmodernism: Mixing Styles

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Everyday Postmodernism: Mechanical Aesthetics

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Everyday Postmodernism: Playing with History

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A Manifesto for Postmodernism?

The image class has played a most revolutionary part. All proud, technical relations, with their train of arrogant, timeless, and powerful forces, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that they tried so desperately to make solid melts ever faster into air. In place of technological hubris, it has brought dystopia; in place of celebrated order, chaos; in place of objective truth, politicized partiality.

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Jean Baudrillard: Simulacrum

Under modernity, we get simulation: symbolic production that tries to be similar to something we know to be real Under postmodernity, we get simulacrum: a simulation of an imagined real The truth of the situation is in its representation—its simulacral moment One step beyond Foucault: not just knowledge but all ideas and representations (might) create their own subjects!

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Example: Postmodern Electoral Crises

Systems designed for extraordinary circumstances (impeachment, quorum, recall, filibuster) In postmodernity, everything is (just) about symbols, and nothing is fixed Therefore all tools are available for any reason Examples:

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Clinton impeachment, 1998

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Davis recall (California), 2000

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Texas and Wisconsin Democrats’ refusal of quorum

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Example: Postmodern Electoral Crises

The Filibuster

Source: Ezra Klein, Washington Post Wonkblog, 5/5/12

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December 3

Everyone in Wilson 128 Please bring laptops Final exam preparation Course Evaluations

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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