The document contrasts aspects of modernism and postmodernism. Modernism values individual thinking, the nuclear family model, and hierarchy/centralized control. Postmodernism values group thinking, alternative family units, and subverted order/loss of centralized control. Postmodernism sees hyper-reality and popular culture as more powerful than originals/high culture. The author believes they have aspects of both but lean more towards postmodernism, agreeing that there are alternative family structures and preferring group thinking, while their music video will take a more modern approach using real representations.

1. Modern vs Postmodern
Mary Medrana

2. ●Modernism ●Postmodernism
●Individual thinking and choices ●Group thinking
●Idea of the family as central unit of social order:
model of the middle-class, nuclear family.
Heterosexual norms.
●Alternative family units, alternatives to middle-class
marriage model, multiple identities for couplings
and child raising. Polysexuality, exposure of
repressed homosexuality and homosocial realities
in cultures.
●Hierarchy, order, centralized control ●Subverted order, loss of centralized control,
fragmentation.
●Faith in “real” beyond media, language, symbols,
and representations; legitimacy of “originals.”
●Hyper-reality, image saturation, simulacra seem
more powerful than the “real”; images and texts with
no prior “original”
●Dichotomy of high and low culture (official vs.
popular culture)
●Imposed consensus that high or official culture is
normative and authoritative, the ground value and
discrimination.
●Disruption of the dominance of high culture by
popular culture.
●Mixing of popular and high cultures, new valuation
of pop culture, hybrid culture forms cancel
“high”/”low” categories.

3. Am I modern or postmodern?
• I believe that I am a bit of both but more towards postmodern. This is
because some aspects of modernism such as hierarchy, order,
centralized control I would agree with. However other aspects of
modernism such as the idea of the family as central unit of social order:
model of the middle-class, nuclear family and also heterosexual norms, I
would not particularly agree with as I believe that there are alternative
family units and not just one in particular. This is what postmodernists
believe which I would agree with. Also, I would rather participate in
group thinking than individual which is what postmodernists would also
prefer.
• However, I believe that my own music video will be more modern as it will
use more “real” media, language, symbols, and representations rather
than depict a hyper reality and less use of image saturation.
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