Postmodernism: The Identities, Realities, and Parodies

Communication and Media
Critical Essay on Postmodernism
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Discuss, compare and contrast the work of two creative practitioners in relation to a/the course theme/s
Jurgen Habermas, a German philosopher, has been one of the most outspoken opponents of postmodern theory. Habermas most recent critics of postmodernism initiate the most prominent discussion about postmodernism politics. Habermas describes himself as a champion of 'project modernity' in the face of 'antimodernism feelings of French post-structuralism. Habermas argues that modernity hasn’t yet been fulfilled as a political and a social enterprise, and proclaiming its extinction is simply a sign of desperation, a reactionary, non-conservative claim which doesn’t involve liberatory and demographic potentials. He takes modernity to be a key to enlightenment and hence defend those principles that perceive individual freedom that results from the rationality of communication and creativity aesthetic between different individual. However, by criticizing the deconstructionist code, Habermas points out how deconstruction understood language as the pattern of symbols that results in relations sets which might be mistakenly taken to be a presumptive thing, but which is nothing else other than an infinite series of cross-references to other signs broadcasting need of a distinct text translation.
In the contrary, Habermas creates the theory based on rational consensus, which contradicts the truth base on empirical, scientific and objective observations but which doesn’t resort to postmodernism's textuality, where the message is regarded as a form of significant disruption. Herbamas dialogue isn’t just an interaction that is not based on truthful claims. He attempts to defend several similar principles while coming up with ideas concerning postmodernism approaches in modernity's philosophical dialogue. Postmodern situation by Lyotard explicitly contradicts Habermas' underlying philosophical stance, such as the goal of humanity ultimate liberation and a goal based on the assumption of information unity. Lyotard criticizescriticizes Habermas' rational society focused on information mechanisms by pointing to the concepts of completeness and sovereignty. Herbamas, elucidates fundamental pragmatics that he seeks to know and understand, reconstructing a comprehensive understanding of valid claims like tightness and trustfulness. Communication action theory, offers a deep structure submerged in all societies concerning searching for immense communication conditions amore two or more individuals. Habermas response to Lyotard’s looks explicitly at the alleged conservatism of poststructuralist positions. Habermas original lectures on modernism and postmodernism are purposefully framed on binary oppositions, which is a stamp of authenticity in classical reasons.
Like Habermas, Fredric Jameson denounces postmodernism theory from a different perspective. He says that postmodernism ought to be a cultural discourse plea of the third level of capitalism. He categorizescategorizes capitalism into several stages. He profound that classical and high capitalism are the first two stages. Each extension of capitalism results in an increase in social distance. Postmodernism is a term that refers to a period since People are thrown out of the economic production system in which they work. According to Jameson, postmodernism should be regarded as a form instead of a genre and a historical hegemony instead of a universal style. Assurance that historical periods are not acknowledged as coexistence and alternatives, he employs terminologies such as cultural dominant. Not all is postmodern; postmodernity serves as a field force for the emergence of various cultures.
According to Jameson, postmodernism discourse's moral features are a new level of flatness, a new kind of speciality in most verbatim manner, the main characteristics of any postmodernism. The expunction of individual, specific style, historical sense, nostalgia, and parody institutes surface celebration rejects orthodox theology. Furthermore, Jameson derides that postmodernism involves fragmentation of artistic context after schizophrenic model, which takes the mode that is controlled by unification and differentiation. These attempts fight against the objectification of discrepancies and make distinct things look similar and enforce to make general identity on different ideologies or individuals. Furthermore, what I present goes beyond our comprehension efforts, surpasses our capacity to reflect it, and categorizes us into a type of baroque rapture, as seen in the historical sense, a theme introduced by Lyotard describes the concept of "other" of human life. Other humanisms are also developing new types of capitalis...