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November 05, 2005

Postmodernism and Popular Culture

After reading chapter 7 of Practices of Looking, I thought about the topic of postmodernism and wondered how can we really say that something is more modern. I thought this, because in our culture most of the time we say that something is modern and that it is new, but sometimes it is merely a replica of something that was already invented or thought up. Many things are repeated in our culture, especially style, in which people try to imitate someone else's style.

Some entertainer's like Madonna and Gwen Stefani have a Marilyn Monroe type of look, which shows that Monroe had an impact on entertainers and was the image of hollywood glam. She was pretty much an icon for many entertainers to follow. Our society is somewhat based on the reproduction of style, because it defines who is important and who has a certain status. Usually people today do not invent new objects of style, but try to transform old ones so that they can become popular again. This goes to show that no matter how "old-school" something may seem, it can always become popular again once people consider it to be socially acceptable again.

--Yasmin

Posted by lcisperez at November 5, 2005 08:05 PM

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