Characteristics of Post-Modernism
-It is innovative and inventive
-it involves participation
-it communicates(through the sign)
-it depends on interpretation
-it considers want as well as need
-it relies on performance, play, chance, and choice
-the part may represent the whole
-it is a system of binary oppositions
-it focuses on the marginal
-it is web-orientated
Post modernism is not restricted by the norms of consistency.
Key dates
1956: Pop Culture and the House
1968: Innovation following the Apollo Moon landing
1968: Paris Student Uprising, which caused changes in university teaching and eventually in government. The messgae, autocracy not acceptable.
1969: Sottsass and the Olivetti Valentine typewriter
1972: Venturi Scott Brown, the iconography of the Duck and the Decorated Shed
1964,77: Roland Barthes and Semiotics
1989: End of the Cold War signaled by the destruction of the Berlin Wall
1959-75: Vietnam War. Jameson and the logic of Late Capitalism. Baudrillard and the Simulacrum
1984: Apple Macintosh
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