OUGD601 - Context of Practice 3: Research (8) Postmodernity

Postmodernity:

Quotes that I could consider using for my dissertation: 

“Since the 1980s it has engendered a huge sometimes angry, sometimes anxious, debate in many disciplines from geography to theology and from philosophy to political science” (Lyon 1999: 6)

“But in everyday life, the postmodern may be seen in the blurring of boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture’ the collapse of hierarchies of knowledge, taste and opinion; and the interest in the local rather than the universal” (Lyon 1999: 10).

‘Postmodernity’, on the other hand, while still concentrating on the exhaustion of modernity, has to do with the putative social changes” (Lyon 1999: 10).

The Postmodern is rightly associated with a society where consumer lifestyles and mass consumption dominate the waking lives of its members. Fashion and taste are eclectic” (Lyon 1999: 71)

“What we have not yet discussed in any depth is the rise of consumerism, and the possibility that in the contemporary creation of the new consumer lies a crucial clue for understanding postmodernity and postmodernism(Lyon 1999: 70).

Certainly it is hard to find clear cultural boundary markers today. The rise of consumerism and of TV viewing has accelerated the ‘implosion’ of reality, obscuring previously herished distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow, between the culture of the elite and the culture of the masses” (Lyon 1999: 73).