FILM 3660 1nd Edition Lecture 4Outline of Last Lecture - I. Jeff Koons – Balloon Dog (Magenta) II. Market is the MediumIII. For the Love of God – Damien Hirst IV. Mr. DOB - Takashi Marakami Outline of Current Lecture –Features of The Postmoderna. A New Depthlessnessb. A Weakening of Historicityc. Intensities, The Sublime and the Postmodern Waning of Affectd. The Pervasiveness of Technologye. Mutations in Built Spacef. Political Art in the Age of Late CapitalismII. Van Gogh’s ShoesCurrent Lecture:FEATURES OF THE POSTMODERN:1. A New Depthlessness: We don’t have anything to see when you look past us. There is no depth in our eyes.2. A Weakening of Historicity: No lived relationship to the past, no heir of generation, and no social concerns that we still remember. Limited access to the past. Also no relationship with the future- when world evolves it becomes unimaginable to think things could be different. 3. Intensities, The Sublime and the Postmodern Waning of Affect: Being able to feel afraid, angst, anxiety, and alienation inability to connect with the world. Being able to have “emotion” in postmodern times this is impossible because we don’t have dominate emotions we have little intensities. No structural way of feeling. We are all addicted to intensities. 4. The Pervasiveness of Technology: The Global development of Capital5. Mutations in Built Space: The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, LA - Jameson6. Political Art in the Age of Late Capitalism: Art is critical in the world. Jamison instead saysis art sill political? That’s what we need: Cognitive mapping. We need works of art that show orientation of time, space. These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Van Gogh Shoes Jamison uses says if you can understand a work like this then you can understand a different life, got up with the sun, went to sleep. These shoes belong to a modern world with a balance of on and off. Contract to Warhol’s shoe painting – Jamison says this is like a concentration camp, a pile of dead artifacts in a pile that don’t equal
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