Western Civilization II / Unit 18 WC2 1728 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Postmodernism and Pop Art: Foucault, Derrida, Warhol
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The idea
Postmodernism rejected the grand narratives: meanings are built to serve power. Foucault read insanity, crime and sexuality as inventions that justify surveillance; Barthes and Derrida emptied authorial intent, texts as word games. Warhol's soup cans of nineteen sixty-two put advertising in the gallery.
In practice
The civilizing mission beside plunder, the anchor's example.
Where people slip
Anchor-only; the anchor's "1968" is corrected.
Your place on the trail
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Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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