Texts each link back to course materials found on bb.cazenovia.edu Capitalism + Bauhaus = IKEA Baudrillard's Vision of the Postmodern Society and the Hope for Human Action RE: "Baudrillard, influenced by the Frankfurt School critical theorists, emphasizes how everything good has been turned into goods. Health and well-being translates to a membership in a gym and drinking bottled fruit juices. Avant-garde art is reduced to a few songs sung by gyrating Madonna wannabes. .. For Baudrillard, the late capitalism is not just about production. It is about the consumption, not merely of goods, but of signs. While Marx, and the Neo-Marxists insist that the value of products depend on their exchange-value, Baudrillard focuses on a different perspective. For him, commodities are consumed for their sign-value. Each particular commodity has a meaning attached to it. Poster writes: “The object has its effect when it is consumed by transferring its ‘meaning’ to the indi
WK 12 Postmodern Architecture and Design TU APR 16 Post Modernism > Future planning: material innovations vs Modern TH APR 18 Modernism for the Masses, IKEA, others - a great debate Texts each link back to course materials found on bb.cazenovia.edu Modern vs Postmodern Architecture In Reaction to Modernism > Chicago Architecture Center Michael Graves Postmodernism TIMELINE Neue Staatsgalerie by James Stirling Postmodernist Architecture > RIBA Architecture.com Postmodern Architecture Wiki History of Postmodernism Design All about Philosophy > Post-Modernism Britannica > Post-Modernism philosophy What is Postmodernism? V&A Museum Postmodernism. Dezeen.com Postmodernism Building Materials Masterpieces of Venturi, a postmodernist architect Best postmodernist Venturis by DeZeen.com Vanna Venturi House - Philadelphia, PA > The house incorporates many of the devices used by Modernist archite