Tuesday, October 9, 2012
POSTMODERNISM
I've chosen The Final Cut and Educational Use of Second Life
The film is a postmodernist one. It is an excelent example in which we can see the advent of computers. The key feature here is knowledge. On one hand, real knowledge is the one that can be stored in a "digitalized" way, in this case in a chip that is implanted in a baby as soon as it is born. When this person dies, the images can be used to make a "memorial" video, which is shown in their wake. On the other, we can also analyse knowledge as functional because we make use of it to produce this video.
The video that explains the educational use of second life was stricking for me. I knew that lectures were given using this platform but I didn't know the fact that you could go to different museums to see the paintings which are there and this is the key element of postmodernism. The reality created by simulation, the virtual reality. This world is not original it's a copy of the real one, we could say is a reproduction of life.
In my opinion, I found these videos appropiate to analyse two key features of postmodernism: knowledge and simulacra.
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Very interesting analysis of, in my opinion, two very important feactures of postmodernism: knowledge and simulacra.
ReplyDeleteThe movie was a very interesting element to explore knowledge as a functional element as you very well stated.
Congrats! :)
You have pinpointed two key elemets, as Sofia says.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I feel you have overlooked the main feature of this memorial video, which is closely connected to the title. Can you suggest what that is?
NB: advent (check meaning), on the one hand, striking, punctuation in the paragraph before last.
The power of technology and the way our lives are manipulated by the "cutter" a person who is encharged of preparing the video for this person's wake.
ReplyDeleteWhich means "reality" is tampered with, or at least reinvented by the selections made.
ReplyDeleteNB: spelling, on the one hand (in original post)