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Postmodern Sports For All! - 0 views
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070916x3.html
This Japan Times article brings forth a new kind of athleticism for the average person, which involves the IAAF's World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan. The author of the article questions why throwing mouse pads, cell phones, steel balls and hammers could be defined as 'athleticism' and why not call it a form of post modern athletics. What is truly stopping people in the postmodern world of today from throwing objects competitively? A professor of Greek archeology established this idea when he was teaching about Homer's "Iliad" and the Olympic events of shot put and javelin throwing references were discussed. These contests including the 'World Mouse Pad Throwng Competition' and the annual 'Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships' is a ode to the historical and intelligent Greeks that allowed us to create a postmodern twist to the historical games created thousands of years ago.
Postmodern religion: Reason vs. Discovering Truth - 0 views
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http://www.thewychefamily.com/beliefs/postmodern-religion.html
Religion seems to be held highly in the times of Modernism. Established rules, and structure were not only in the classroom but also in the religious buildings as well with reciting of scriptures and psalms to bring one closer to God. Today 95% of people today believe in God or a universal Spirit. "Today spirituality means mystical experience, not truth. We can seek and savor any experience we please, as long as we remain inclusive and tolerant (Leffel and McCallum 1)." This is a postmodern way people view religion because this relates back to how in our postmodern era it is all about instant gratification. Along with religion people want to be pleased and have answers immediately. This website indicated the two cardinal sins of postmodern religious culture are intolerance and objectivity and how post modern religious culture differs from that of the 'fundamentalists' idea of reason and not discovering truth.
Notorious B.I.G. had BIG ideas for post modern ways of remixing videos to establish a m... - 1 views
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http://buildingsandfood.com/great-moments-in-post-modernism-pt-1-more-money-more-problems
Notorious B.I.G. was credited for a video created in the late 1990s as being one of the 'strangest bits of art to make it onto MTV in the 1990s'. It is a parody cutting back and forth of footage of a golf tournament, a rap video and B.I.G. rambling in his candid rapping. It was considered a post modern video because is was a 'not so conventional' way to approach hip hop, especially when they added a line from a previously recorded Diana Ross track, which was 'more money, more problems.' It was a post modern way of approaching 'remixing' and making this certain line speak to his audience who are watching the video. The video itself contained the glam of hip-hop from the 1980s era combined with the bleak urban background of the late 90s, a kind of fierce way to look at success and failures in any business. This type of message success equals problems (more money equals more problems) was considered a form of social commentary.
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This article highlights the '61 essential postmodern reads' with my favorite quote "In looking at the attributes of the essential postmodern reads, we found some were downright contradictory". Since isn't that what post modernity is? A lack of really knowing what post modernity truly is. The best part about this 61 essential reads of post modern literature is it's annotation with the attributes of what characterizes are post modern such as: 'author is a character, self-contradicting plot, disrupts/plays with form, comments on it's own bookishness, plays with language, includes fictional artifices, blurs reality and fiction, historical falsehoods references to other fictional works, more than 1,000 pages, less than 200 pages, postmodern progenitor'. Not surprisingly Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' makes the list along with Vladimir Nabokov's 'Pale Fire'. Under each book is listed the characteristics I listed above with a picture of what annotation fits the one of the book displayed. This provides a postmodern way to list postmodern novels with using annotations and pictures to categorize the contradicting world of postmodern ideals.