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    Postmodern Theory

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    Theoretical Orientation The postmodern lens eliminates the erroneous belief that therapists are experts in their client’ lives and can easily “fix” problems. I learned the importance of acknowledging that I am the expert in my life; and that I am the owner of my story. For instance, my story is rich in experiences that help me identify my resilience, but this would not be possible without acknowledging the ownership of my story. Since resilience is the individual act of recovering from a traumatic or difficult experience, it cannot be attributed to others. Simply when clients are confronted with problems, being able to acknowledge their resilience empowers them to overcome adversity. As a client retelling my problem saturated story allowed…

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    Postmodern Grief Theory

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    and impacts each family differently. The schools are impacted by this loss because they are usually the baring of bad news. When a child is diagnosed this may bring multiple feelings, some might deny that a problem exist where as other are happy to be closer to a solution. Parents who struggle handling their child’s behavior, or medical needs tend to find relief when their child’s diagnosis has been identified. The stages of grief affect everyone differently as reflected in the postmodern grief…

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    Consistent with the feminist perspective, postmodern theory also emphasizes some key points made in the modern feminist movement and within polyamorist communities. Postmodern theory states that we need to push relationships in the direction of equality. There should be a balance in the relationship with the desire and trust that each individual has with the other. They should also have equal choices in what happens within the relationship, and be compatible with one another (Barker, 2005).…

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    Don DeLillo’s White Noise, is a quintessential postmodern novel. DeLillo’s novel focuses on a society that has become hyperreal. The real no longer exists in White Noise, it has just become an image that no longer has a true reality. Many of the themes are ones of images becoming something else entirely. Jean Baudrillard and Fredric Jameson theories relate to DeLillo’s postmodern consumer society and how signs create a hyperreality. Baudrillard’s post-humanist theory of the simulacra is showing…

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    Since the beginning of the 20thcentury, it has been deliberated that the works of Marx have shaped and sculpted many aspects of art through to the postmodern era. Barbara Kruger is one of many postmodernists, who’s practice demonstrates the issues of the social and economic powers of the 1980s, by applying her work to all echelons of society. Through the theories of many postmodern critiques, the original Marxist views have been retrospectively accepted however re-worked within the master…

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    Postmodernism Analysis

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    nom de guerre “avant-garde” is debatable when considering commentary such as Richard Schechner’s Post-Post-Structuralism? in TDR and hghghghghghg. In her introduction to Postmodernism, an analysis of contemporary visual art, Eleanor Heartney compares the absence of any finite exactitude of postmodernity to the concept of God; being both “remarkably impervious to definition.” However, to enter into any analysis of the relationship between the postmodern paradigm and the socio-political…

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    By discussing the conditions during the Postmodern era we can understand why artists such as Tracey Emin, Cindy Sherman, The Chapman Brothers chose to reject traditional aesthetics instead conveying their intentions through shocking subjects and media to convey their intentions to the audience. “In both Britain and New York contemporary artists have shunned the tradition of aesthetics, preferring to communicate their meaning through shocking subjects and media, what is now referred to as the…

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    proposed his theory that: “No one sees the barn,…Once you’ve seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see…

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    Ethos Pynchon

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    Entropy and Meaning in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 In modernity, the narrative of scientific progress operates under the assumption of order and linear progress. But with the rise of postmodern theory, these assumptions begin to be called into question to provoke new scientific discourses based on indeterminacies and discontinuities. The Crying of Lot 49 poses the same questions of the possibility of scientific knowledge and the search for intrinsic meaning. Pynchon follows the…

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    Three words to describe Jen Schwarting’s exhibit are Appropriation, narrative art and snapshot aesthetic. The narrative element is interwoven into the exhibit. The artist provides spectators with the general story of the subjects, drunk girls. However viewers are clueless to the individualized stories of the girls. As well as the relationship between the subjects and the photographers. Viewers can’t help but create or ponder the possibilities of the relationship the that exists between them. The…

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