Post Modernism

post modernism is a sustained period in time of innovated of the arts linked to changes. Rationalism, technological determinism and increased globalisation from 1980's and this meant no more grand or meta narrative. technology allowed experimentation with identity and personal narrative. Contested testimony and post truth culture and this idea that social media isn't authentic. Modernism has been shaped by dishonesty and contradictory attitudes to modern media. rational modernist and experimental cyberculture and the merging of high and low culture. Thus theme of global cultural hybridity, hyper reality and nostalgia culture.

Hyper real - the differentiation between real and masked is unclear
unstable image - hyper real and the order of simulacra 
Reality tv - a retouched hyper real 
Simulacra - 
1) reflection of basic reality
2) it masks and distorts basic reality
3) it marks absence of basic reality
4) it bears no relation to any reality 
Parody - loaded simulation 
​Patiche - images presented without relation or meaning