Orignality and Postmodernity

The feeling I got from our class discussion today was that the relationship between the original and the reproduction of the original essentially emphasizes the concept behind postmodernism. Like our architecture discussion, buildings and designs are constantly being tweaked to appear original but share common characteristics with buildings that were previously built. Everything had to begin someone and postmodernity is the stage where we continue to build upon the original foundations with more and more details and design factors. Postmodernity is a shift in understanding and culture that allows humanity to continually change overtime yet go back and reflect on old concepts and ideas. For example, Benjamin talked about actors and the differences the actors have from performing on a stage to those actors who perform on screen. Acting began as a fundamental idea of putting people on an elevated platform and entertaining an audience and has conformed to actors putting on a performance with a camera and relaying entertainment to the audience. Film is simply what has evolved over the years from the original theater.