Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Postmodernism is a clearly understood and singularly defined concept.
2. “Buy this car because it is made well” is an example of imagistic advertising.
3. In a postmodern society symbols no longer refer directly to concrete reality.
@ Cognitive domain: Application; Answer location: Baudrillard’s Intellectual Influence
4. For Lyotard, it is no longer important what one knows but whether one can afford to buy what
5. There are only limited possibilities for consensual understanding and collective politics due to the localized forms knowledge is forced to take refuge in.
1. False
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. True
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