Some useful quotes from Teach Yourself Postmodernism relating to The Self..Glen Ward.
'There are many sides to the unfolding story of Postmodern identity, but the starting point is that the self is fundementally social'. pp118
Karl Marx insisted on the above idea.
. 'For Jean Baudrillard (see chap 4) it involves a viral invasion of simulation into private life, such that it is impossible to draw a line between natural and manufactured identities and desires'. pp118
In modern identity...'There is still assumed to be a real, innate self underneath the public roles you play, but the struggle is finding it and being true to it'. pp119
*Check out Sigmund Freud.
* Sociology.
'Some theorists (for example Jameson, Baudrillard, Debord - see chapter 4) start to look at how the selves achieved under modernity have vanished in the wake of consumerism, mass culture and growing bureaucratization of life. others such as Lacan and Foucault propose that the stable unified self has always been an illusion. Although identity remains an issue in day to day life, postmodern theorists have binned any notion of the self as essential or timeless. In place of the earnest modernist search for the deep, authentic self, we have a recognition, and sometimes a celebration of disintegration, fragmented desires, superficiality and identity as something you shop for. According to some sociologists identity is best understood in terms of role play or style management. Image is now all that matters.' pp120
' In some earlier 20th century philosophy, the self loses its substance and becomes the product of your own search for authenticity (for example the work of Jean Paul Sartre). In postmodernism the self is without substance, but fashion statements, shopping and lifestyle choices have pushed authenticity out of the equation'. pp120
'There are many sides to the unfolding story of Postmodern identity, but the starting point is that the self is fundementally social'. pp118
Karl Marx insisted on the above idea.
. 'For Jean Baudrillard (see chap 4) it involves a viral invasion of simulation into private life, such that it is impossible to draw a line between natural and manufactured identities and desires'. pp118
In modern identity...'There is still assumed to be a real, innate self underneath the public roles you play, but the struggle is finding it and being true to it'. pp119
*Check out Sigmund Freud.
* Sociology.
'Some theorists (for example Jameson, Baudrillard, Debord - see chapter 4) start to look at how the selves achieved under modernity have vanished in the wake of consumerism, mass culture and growing bureaucratization of life. others such as Lacan and Foucault propose that the stable unified self has always been an illusion. Although identity remains an issue in day to day life, postmodern theorists have binned any notion of the self as essential or timeless. In place of the earnest modernist search for the deep, authentic self, we have a recognition, and sometimes a celebration of disintegration, fragmented desires, superficiality and identity as something you shop for. According to some sociologists identity is best understood in terms of role play or style management. Image is now all that matters.' pp120
' In some earlier 20th century philosophy, the self loses its substance and becomes the product of your own search for authenticity (for example the work of Jean Paul Sartre). In postmodernism the self is without substance, but fashion statements, shopping and lifestyle choices have pushed authenticity out of the equation'. pp120
No comments:
Post a Comment