1. Introduction to Critical Theory Becky Opsata

2. Modernity The Age of Enlightenment (1600-1800) Industrial Revolution (1800’s) Great societal upheaval Mobility of labor, alienation of labor Technological changes, media and transport Birth of the nation-state

3. The impact of alienation of labor

4. What technology brings to you: country kareoke

5. Modern Dance: D1 gets down at the NDT

6. Modernity 1)Replacement of religion with science and reason 2)Belief in rational self as individuals that have “rights” 3)Belief in coherent society and grand narratives 4)Creation of the nation state

7. Adam believes he has individual rights, but oh is he wrong

8. Transition from Modernism to Post Modernism as exemplified in Art

9. The Old Masters and Classical Painting

10. Albrect 1570

11. Botecelli 1370

12. Bronzino 1550

15. Canal 1735

16. Raphael

17. Old Master/Renaissance Style Characteristics of this type of painting??

18. Next: Impressionism

19. Picasso 1907

20. Picasso

21. Cezanne

22. Monet

23. Van Gogh

24. Early 1900’s - Impressionism Characteristics of this type of painting?

25. Next: Abstraction

26. Klee

27. Pollock

28. Rauchenberg

29. Abstraction Taken to the Extreme

30. Duchamp 1917

31. Duchamp 1951

32. Manzoni 1962

33. Kosuth – 1986 (Text is Freud)

34. Kosuth 1989

35. Lewitt – 1971 – “4 Cubes”

36. Kosuth 1989

37. Sue and Sylvia: Abstraction Taken to the Extreme

38. Morris 1965 “Untitled - Beams

39. Abstraction What is characteristic of this type of art?

40. Art Transitioned from Modern to Postmodern 1)Old Masters = represents reality 2)Cubism, Impressionism = Crisis in representation of reality 3)Abstraction = presents the unpresentable 4)Non-presentation/Avant-Garde questions who makes art and who can say what is “art”

41. Debate Transitioned from Modern to Postmodern The DA The Critique The Performance

42. Re-Occurring Questions of Postmodernism 1)Representation of Reality – what is real? There is no absolute, universal truth of reality.

43. Baudrillard

44. Re-occurring questions of postmodernism 2) Legitimacy and Power – who has the right to decide what is “real” and “normal”

45. Who says what is normal?

46. What is normal?

47. In Sum, PoMo is a critique of universal claims. It believes there is not one truth, but there are multiple ways of representing/presenting the world. It discusses power relations – who has it and why.

48. Key PoMo Concepts 1)Structuralism/post-structuralism (The birth of critical theory comes from Linguistics.) Sturcturalism: DeSaussure & Levi-Strauss in the late 1800’s- early 1900’s. Looked for structure in language. Poststructuralism: Language is arbitrary and socially created.

49. Discussing the meaning of words

50. Keys 2) Deconstruction Derrida There is nothing outside of the text http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~dclark/ClarkrememberingJD.htm

51. Deconstruct This

52. Keys 3) Foucault Power/Knowledge – the second main question of PoMo

53. Foucault’s Panopticon (Bentham)

54. Foucault’s Archeology/Genealogy

55. Genealogy

56. Keys 4) Marxists/Critiques of Capitalism/Critiques of development/Commodification Gramsci/Althusser Frankfort School: Horkeimer/Adorno/Benajmin

57. Keys 5) Postmodern Feminism Critiques of power and otherizing Liberal feminism, eco-feminism, and other

58. Keys 6) Post-colonialism Consequences of Western expansion Said/Bhabba/Mohanty

60. Keys 7) Feminist International Relations Critiques of the state (borders/gendered), of power decision-makers in the nation state, and security. Tickner

61. Keys 8) Language critiques like: Nuclearism, threat construction, disaster porn 9) Critiques of the problem-solution mindset (Spanos)

62. Threat Construction

63. Critiques of Critical Theory 1) Unacceptable epistemic relativism Belief that there is no truth and that society is constructed is wrong and dangerous. 2) Is nihilistic without any values or ethical standards for what is right 3) Destructive of human identity, there is a core to humans, the western idea of rights is good

64. Critiques 4) No solvency, creates an endless cycle 5) elitist/ivory tower

65. Review of the 2 Main Questions of Postmodernism 1)Representation of Reality 2)Legitimacy and Power – who has the right to say what is real