We read many books but I never ready found myself thinking before
now “Am I reading them post-modern
children’s books or modernist or what?”
“One Fish— two
fish— red fish— blue fish”
“Look what we found
in the park
in the dark.
We will take him home.
We will call him Clark.
He
will live at our house.
He
will grow and grow.
Will
our mother like this?
We
don’t know” (Seuss)
How does this relate to the Gaga video? “Don’t ask us why. — Go ask your mother”. (Seuss)
ぜんぜんわかりません。
ぜんぜんわかりません。
ぜんぜんわかりません。
가가 가가 가가
The Lady GaGa video is postmodern in a few ways. In the video the “medium is the message”. The way in which the video is constructed is
what the video is trying to say. But since
there is no absolute truth in post modernism, the video could have a very
specific message (when looking from a post-modernist perspective it could mean
anything).
Dr. Seuss
Which brings us too Dr. Seuss. I have found a few books on Dr. Seuss and
post modernism. One of them I read in
part online and added to my amazon wish list because I am a nerd (links on the
bottom). One of them talks about how
these books were part of the transition to postmodernism.
So reread “The Thinks You Can Think” and “One Fish,
Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” from an understanding of post-modernism. Generations of Americans are being raised on
these types of book. I wonder how it
affects the way we think.
Back to
Gaga now.
The pop culture and advertisement references are also
postmodernist and in the video.
But this is not the way I want to respond to this
video.
So here
you go. . .
I realize that posting this video means I am comparing
SuG (Japanese Band) to Lady Gaga, but I would like to point out that I prefer one to the other. And I do not find the comparison valid except
that they are both post-modern and stuff like that. (I must point out that J-rock was J-rock before Gaga was Gaga)
Anyways, our culture is not the only one doing reality
bending. And because we are in such a
global world could there even be a definition of “our culture” that actually applies?
More SuG and there are many American Culture references in this last one. The most obviously being to The Rocky Horror Picture Show which started off as a British play. And this is video is. . . . the other (the Japanese rock group) commenting on an other (the movie) which comments on different others.
If this blog post did not make sense, I blame postmodernism. I did toss in some random Japanese and Korean. But the Gaga video had some random Japanese so I figure it is fine.
Some Relevant Quotes
“I threw the bottle rack and the urinal in their faces
as a challenge, and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.” - Marcel Duchamp
"Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of
liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and
moral suicide." - Gertrude
Himmelfarb
Notes
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(='.'=) – “Vamp Vamp Vamp!”
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(The
bunny is making a SuG song reference)
"If this blog post did not make sense, I blame postmodernism." Fair enough.
ReplyDelete(Good job.)