1. Postmodern
Theorists Quotes
Postmodernists claim that in a media - saturated world, where we are
constantly immersed in media, 24/7 - and at work, at home - the
distinction between reality and the media representation of it
becomes blurred. Simply put, we no longer have any sense of the
difference between real things and and images of them.

2. Jean-Francois Lyotard
 “Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity
toward metanarratives.”
- Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on
Knowledge
 “Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is
altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age
and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.”
 “That is what the postmodern world is all about. Many people
have lost the nostalgia for the lost narrative.”
 “In contemporary society and culture — postindustrial society,
postmodern culture — … the grand narrative has lost its
credibility, regardless of what mode of unification it uses,
regardless of whether it is a speculative narrative or a narrative
of emancipation. ”

3. Jean Baudrillard
 Jean Baudrillard has been referred to as "the high priest of
postmodernism." Baudrillard's key ideas include two that are often used
in discussing postmodernism in the arts: "simulation" and "the
hyperreal." The hyperreal is "more real than real": something fake and
artificial comes to be more definitive of the real than reality
itself. Examples include high fashion (which is more beautiful than
beauty), the news ("sound bites" determine outcomes of political
contests), and Disneyland (see below). A "simulation" is a copy or
imitation that substitutes for reality. Again, the TV speech of a political
candidate, something staged entirely to be seen on TV, is a good
example.
 Disneyland is a perfect model of the entangled orders of simulation. To
begin with it is a play of illusions and phantasms: Pirates, the Frontier,
Future World, etc. This imaginary world is supposed to be what makes
the operation successful. But what draws the crowds is undoubtedly
much more the social microcosm, the miniaturized and religious reveling
in real America, in its delights and drawbacks. You park outside, queue
up inside, and are totally abandoned at the exit. In this imaginary world
the only phantasmagoria is in the inherent warmth and affection of the
crowd, and in that sufficiently excessive number of gadgets used there
specifically to maintain the multitudinous affect

4. Jean Baudrillard continued..
 “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
 ― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
 “The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence
of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks,
news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill
the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest
technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it
reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.”
 “..Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America that is
Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal
omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us
believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are
no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no
longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact
that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.”
 ― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
 “When the real no longer is what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.”