Postmodernism and Poststructuralism in Literature

Postmodernism and Poststructuralism in LiteratureIn what ways do postmodernists and poststructuralists complicate our consciousness of earthly concern and its representation in literature and culture? Postmodernism is a shift of emphasis from content to form or style a transformation from truthfulness into images1 which is what will be explored in the following essay and also the ways in which postmodernists and poststructuralists complicate reality. Focusing on how it is represent in culture. The theorists that will be focused on in regards to exploring this question ar Derrida and Baudrillard with emphasis on the gulf war.Jacques Derrida is virtuoso of the major figures in the intellectual life of our time2 Through his intervention texts are perceived in a different way, he discusses the conflicting relationship between an authors expressed intentions and what the text actually describes.3 Paying attention to ideas that are inconsistent with its overt statements.4 Therefore, his theory of deconstruction brings to light the suppressed textual conflicts concerning what is ideal, primary or original5 he focuses on the hierarchies between speech and writing and temperament and culture.6 An important term when discussing Derrida is differance. Differance arises from his appropriation of Saussures concept of the sign7 It is used in relation to the oppositions between presence and absence because differance is neither present nor absent but kinda it is a kind of absence that generates the effect of presence.8 The term is neither individuality or difference but a kind of differentiation that produces the effect of identity and of difference between those identities.9Derrida invents this term to generate the alternative understanding that refers to the passage of the infinite, endless differentiation10 Differance substance both to differ and to defer11 Therefore, it is the unresolved deferral of the identity one might absorb ascribed to a particular term for model an entirely fixed meaning for the word dog never definitively arrives.12 Derridas famous statement in that respect is no come out of the closetside of the text13 does non mean that there is anything in the world but words on a page or books because Derrida redefined the term text. text means the indefinitely deferring movement of differentiation.14 Rather than Derrida asking what is there, he interrogates the tangles in which we become entwined when we ask what there is.15 Human beings tend to project something original which is represented or hypothesized by them, this is referred to as origins which is already enmeshed in language 16 The way we talk about origins, and what is secondary to them, produces the effect that there seems to be an origin.17Derrida endlessly depicts origins textually and it is suggested that there may or may not be a beyond to the plays of language, the replies to his famous statement there is nothing outside of the text18 are generally in agreement that there is surely something outside of the text such as blood, rain, trees, and bodies, they believe that Derrida denies reality in favour of words19 this response to his statement misunderstands what Derrida means when he refers to text. For him, the text means differance, spacing, relationality, differentiation, deferral, and delay.20 By saying that there is nothing out of the text is stating that there is always relationality and differentiation but whatever is imagined as reality, it is argued that differentiation is critical.21 The critics that object Derridas theories, they suggest the feeling of anger and emotion because emotion is not a text, some critics do defend Derrida but still travel to grasp what he means, for example, they state that it is impossible to describe anger without metaphors and linguistic meanings- we have always entered the world of language, 22 and that language constructs the reality in which we live in. otherwise critics argue that emot ion is already differential23 therefore, they believe that Derrida emphasises that we are always in the world of language, whether people refer to the rain or sun we never stepped out of language to touch the thing itself.24However, this explanation is a misunderstanding, according to Derrida a suggestion of rain in itself that I am, however, unable to experience except in the world of language and meaning.25 This is a deconstructive way of talking because it projects an original world that people believe we cannot access, trapped in some prison of language26 This raises the issue of a world that we cannot access, Catherine Belsey definition of the real, One can only think of language as a network, a net over the entirety of things, over the amount of money of the real27 the real can be a place of traumatic events that should never be confronted, even in dreams28 the real surrounds us it is a condition of man beings but it is something that is lost to us. constituted by culturally constructed images of reality.29A theorist that explores the loss of the real and the replacement of it is Baudrillard. His theory suggests thats dis pretense and simulacra replaces the real with a copy, no more mirror of being and appearances of the real30 The real disappears because it is made up of miniaturized units, from matrices, memory banks, and command models.31 Therefore, it can be reproduced multiple times, it is nothing more than operational. Thus, it is no chronic enveloped by an imaginary so it is no longer real at all, it is hyperreal32 The age of make-believe begins with a liquidation of all referentials, by artificial resurrection in a clay of signs.33 Baudrillard suggests that this becomes a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself34 this process is to deter every real process by its operational double Baudrillard describes it as a perfect descriptive machine which provides all the signs of the real35 therefore, the real is not needed to be reproduced ever again. He goes on to say that to simulate something is to feign to have what one hasnt 36however, he suggests that to do this is not to simply feign because feigning always leaves reality intact the difference us always clear, it is only draped37 but simulation on the other hand threatens the difference between what is true and what is false between the real and the imaginary because the simulator produces true symptoms38 so simulation is a play of illusions and phantasms39Moreover, Baudrillards the gulf war did not take place suggests that the war that took place during January and February 1991 was a TV gulf war.40 It is a perfect example of Baudrillards theory. a hyperreal scenario in which events lose their identity and signifiers fade into one41 suggesting that the medias representation as purveyor of reality42what viewers saw on the TV was for the most part a clear-cut war with lots of pictures of weaponry, including the amazing footage from the nose-came ras of smart bombs.43 Baudrillard insists that technological simulacra neither displace nor der the reality of war44 instead becoming an integral part of the operation. Technology allowed the boundaries between simulation and reality to become blurred45 Baudrillard argues that under these conditions the virtual has overtaken the actual46 and it functions to deter the real event and leaves only the simulacrum of war47 however, as he points out this does not mean it is unsubstantial in the sense that it does not have real effects48 therefore, the real vanishes into the virtual. The event of war had become obscene and insupportable49 like every real event.Therefore, we are confronted with a virtual apocalypse, a hegemony50 which is ultimately more dangerous than real apocalypse51 in turn our virtual had definitely taken over the actual and we must be content with this extreme52 because we are no longer in a logic of the passage from virtual to actual but in a hyperrealist logic of det errence of the real by the virtual53 Derrida misunderstands Baudrillard by stating that he finds it interesting that simulacra of images, television, the manipulation of information, reportage nullified the event54 he agrees that something like this or something analogues happened55 however, he quickly asserts his disagreement by suggesting that this should not make us forget-and the event unforgettable- that there were deaths that no logic of simulacrum can make us forget.56 Baudrillard does not deny that there were any deaths in the war, Baudrillard is suggesting that the media controlled the way in which people viewed the war, how they were exposed to it and desensitised to it through its representation. Another example of simulation would be Existenz57. The film played with the idea that a digitally created simulation could invisibly and seamlessly replace the solid, messy analogy world of our everyday life58 The film the Matrix59 also gives an idea of a simulation where social control was nearly complete60 therefore, by opposing the imagery with the real as two different narrative registers in the same film Hollywood narrative, even in the most flakey form, asserts all the more stridently its status as reality61Overall, Theorists such as Derrida and Baudrillard complicate our understanding by suggesting that what we know to be reality is in point not what we think. Baudrillard believes that our reality is replaced by a simulation that we have to come to accept, this simulation is controlled by outlets such as the media Derrida suggests that language does not construct our reality like critics have previously stated but instead suggests that we project an origin of an original world which we cannot gain access to. 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