{"id":648,"date":"2016-04-27T11:31:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/visualrhetoric\/?p=648"},"modified":"2016-04-27T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:31:11","slug":"discussion-questions-for-postmodernism-indie-media-and-popular-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/visualrhetoric\/2016\/04\/27\/discussion-questions-for-postmodernism-indie-media-and-popular-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Questions for “Postmodernism, Indie Media, and Popular Culture”"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Harrison Thomas and Alfredo Olazaba<\/p>\n

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  1. What are the defining differences between postmodernism and modernism?<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. How does the act of \u201cquoting,\u201d whether referring to texts, clothing, or general style, create a \u201cdistancing irony?\u201d Give an example of this.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Postmodernism asserts that identity is performed, and the physical body is imagined to be easily transformed. Give an example of a public figure incorporating these postmodern ideals into their identity, and the processes by which they do this.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. What is a genre parody? How does it function? Give an example.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Are musical acts such as Radiohead and The Smiths that behave subversively within the system of the music industry effective in achieving their goals? Argue why or why not.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    by Harrison Thomas and Alfredo Olazaba What are the defining differences between postmodernism and modernism? How does the act of \u201cquoting,\u201d whether referring to texts, clothing, or general style, create a \u201cdistancing irony?\u201d Give an example of this. Postmodernism asserts that identity is performed, and the physical body is imagined to be easily transformed. Give […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/visualrhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/visualrhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/visualrhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/visualrhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/visualrhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/visualrhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/visualrhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/visualrhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/visualrhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/visualrhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}