Postmodernism Project
By: Ashley Chantry
period: 2
Altered States
More Human than Human
Drugs, mental illness and technology provide a dark, often psychedelic gateway to new internal realities.
The skeleton Key is the last example
Artificial intelligence, robotics and cybernetics seek to enhance replace, humanity.
Real steel is also an example
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Hyperreality
Set in the near future, where robot boxing is a top sport, a struggling promoter feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.
Technology created realities are often more authentic or desirable than the real world.
Time Bending
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
Time travel provides another way to shape reality.
The Time Travelers wife is a postmodernism movie.
Definition
about a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage.
A late 20th-century style in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism.
Facts about Postmodernism
Its a term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction and cultural and literary criticism. It relies on concrete experience over abstract principles, knowing always that the outcome of one's own experience will necessarily be fallible and relative, rather than certain and universal.