Frederic Jameson: Jameson sees postmodernism as showing a lackof thought and intelligence and trapped in references that come from other things. He thinks that postmodrnism is nothing more than a series of "jokes" which have no deeper meaning or purpose.
Quote from Jameson: "The omnipresence of media output helps explain postmodernists merging of all discourse into an undifferentiated whole".
Derrida: Derrida's opinion on postmodernism is that there are no genreless texts. He says that every text participates in one or several genres. What he is saying is that all pieces of writing, films, music etc have to have a genre. So, for example, with derrida this piece of text would have a genre.
Levi Strauss: Levi saw postmodernism as any text being constructed off of another. He saw that writers constructed text from others by the processes of either; addition,deletion,substitution and transportation. Levi would think that "kick-ass" would be very postmodern as it has taken bits from other superhero films such as super-man and spider-man to create something that is similar. Using "debris" from films of the same genre opens the film to a wider audeince and helps them to understand/know whats going on better.
Baudrillard: Baudrillard developed the idea of simulation and simulacra simulation. These are the processes in which representations of things come to replace the things being represented. The representations then become more important than the real thing. For example, Mcdonalds "big mac's" are shown on a picture on the menu in mcdonalds. The picture of the burger looks better than the actual burger you get and is very misleading. The picture of the burger being presented is not the burger you get when you order. The burger you get is just infact a copy of the burger pictured, and looks nothing like it. A simualation becomes simularca when things have no relation to reality.
Jean Fancois Lyotard: Lyotard says that they're are no big stories (Grand Narratives), but just lots of little ones. He says that there are no "big stories". By saying this he is creating a paradox, because by saying there are no big stories he is creating one. An example that contradicts Lyotard is Kick-ass. Kick-ass is lots of little stories (super-man, spider-man) in one big story. Lyotard favours "micronarratives" that can go in any direction, that reflect diversity, that are unpredictable.
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