Po-Mo Poem

Po-Mo Poem

Postmodernism comes

After modernism

One is in the 19th century

The other is in the 20th

I’m so postmodern

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Postmodernism is also

Known as Po-Mo

Irony, parody, intertextuality, 

Hyperrealityyyyyyyy

I’m so postmodern

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Postmodernism is a jumble

That’s what Baudrillard said in a mumble

Lyotard also jumps in the muddle

And attempts to fix the puzzle

I’m so postmodern

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Aesthetic or philosophical,

who the hell knows?

Gaga and Madonna do put

on quite a good show -

disturbing the binary opposite

of what we like to know, 

as Po-Mo.

I’m so postmodern

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Television 

Pastiche in glee

Pattern Recognition in Community

how about intertextuality?

I’m so postmodern

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

SCREAM at film or 

try MATRIX around it - 

Po-Mo is gonna get yah!

mixing the odds of animation 

with the likes of real element 

gets us in quite a predicament.

I’m so postmodern

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Video Games are meta-reflections,

Game Over - Round One - FIGHT

I’m so postmodern

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Postmodernism Essay

Postmodernism

The Compact Oxford English Dictionary refers to postmodernism as "a style and concept in the arts characterized by a distrust of theories and ideologies and by the drawing of attention to conventions".

Postmodernists claim that in a media-saturated world , where we are constantly immersed in media, 24/7. Postmodern media rejects the idea that any media product or text is of any greater value than another. All judgements of value are merely taste. Postmodernism is also said to reflect modern society's feelings of alienation, insecurity and uncertainties concerning identity, history progress and truth, and the break-up of those tradition like religion, the family or perhaps to a lesser extent, class, which helped identify and shape who we are and out place in the world.                                                                                     

Writes on postmodernism (such as Baudrillard and Jameson) argued that recent economic changes produced particular 'structures of feeling' or a 'cultural logic'. Typical assertions include claims that, mostly thanks to television especially MTV in particular, we now live in a 'tree-minute culture' (the length of most people's attention spans, it is said) or that we are part of an over-visual society.

This has implications for realist forms of media, since our sense of reality is now said to be utterly dominated by popular media images; cultural forms can no longer 'hold up the mirror to reality', since reality itself is saturated by advertising, film, video games, and television images. Moreover the capacity of digital imaging makes 'truth claims' or reliability of images tricky. Think about the use of Photoshop in magazine and advertising images. Advertising no longer tries seriously to convince us of its products' real quality but, just shows us a fake about the product.

Specification

http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-a-level-gce-media-studies-h140-h540/