Thursday, 2 February 2012

Test Questions

Why does Mr Burns say ‘Ahoy hoy’?
How they used to answer the telephone

What is a grand narrative?
Refer to the great theories of history, science, religion, politics. For example, Lyotard rejects the ideas that everything is knowable by science or that as history moves forward in time, humanity makes progress. 

Who coined the term grand narrative?
Jean-François Lyotard

What is pluralism?
Belief that there is no one answer to anything

What is Tarvuism?
A parody religion created by British writers Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz

What is a Pastiche?
An imitation of an existing style taking the ‘mick’

What is an Homage?
More respectful way of making use of an existing style

Who claimed ‘The centre is not the centre’?
Jacques Derrida

What on earth did they mean?
The center doesn’t exist naturally, but rather because we need it to in order to make sense of the world around us

What is hyperreality?
Hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality

What was postmodernism a response to?
A rejection of modernism or a return to earlier forms

Why?
Don't agree with it

What is PoMo about the most recent Chiddy Bang single?
Singing about someone that was influential in the past and putting it in a modern song

Which 4 elements of genre does Dan Blacks symphonies employ?
Addition, subtraction, transposition, substitution

Who came up with the idea of this ‘socially constructed debris’?
Levi- Strauss

What is bricolage?
Process by which traditional objects or language are given a new, often subversive, meaning and context

Give me an example of it?
Use of a safety pin by punks as a piercing

Why is a pipe not a pipe?
It is an image of a pipe

Who painted that pipe?
René Magritte

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