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Session 9 Wed 1 Dec: The Postmodern Era – fundamental break or just more modern?

Warhol Multiples: The Break with the Modern and The cult of personality-

Ref John A Walker, Gablik, Walter Benjamin, Warhol

Viewing: Brazil- Terry Gilliam, Life of Brian- Monty Python, The Day Today- Morris, Ianucci BBC, From Duchamp to Pop Art.- Arte video 93-8

Brazil is a science fiction fantasy/black comedy comedy directed by Terry Gilliam. Brazil‘s bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the government depicted in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, except that it has a buffoonish, slapstick quality and lacks a ‘Big Brother’ figure. Brazil has been recognized as an inspiration for writers and artists of the steampunk sub-culture.

How does one inject reason and reality into a fantasy-inspired cycle of violence which always results in an iron Republican grip on power? If they resist Bush’s fantasy, will the organizations of the left be gradually and deliberately transformed by the label “extremist” slowly morphing to mean “terrorist?”