Postmodernism: Hyperreality Research

Postmodernism

A style and concept in the arts characterised by a distrust of theories and ideologies and by drawing of attention to conventions.- dictionary meaning

Media reality has become the new reality. (blurs media representation and reality)

For instance some examples are: Instagram (a photo is taken of a real image and then edited)

Reality shows (parts are scripted for entertainment).

 

Postmodern media rejects the idea that any media product or text is any greater value than another.

Within postmodernism there is no ultimate truth, just arguments and representations of the truth. Which means that the representations we do see are just the winning truth.
We now live in a reality defined by images and representations (state of simulacrum).

 

Founders:

 

Lyotard and Baudrillard were the founders of the postmodern movement.

 

Lyotard’s theory: texts or images can never accurately reproduce reality or truth.

Baudrillard’s theory: there is only the surface meaning: there is no longer any 'original' thing for a sign to represent. We inhabit a society made up wholly of simulacra.

Hyperreality:

Hyperreality is a text that is said to be intertextual and self referential, as they break the rules of realism to explore the nature of their own status as constructed texts (represent media reality).