Perspectives | Key Words

• High Modernism - is a form of modernity, characterized by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means to reorder the social and natural world.
• Capitalism - is an economic system and an ideology based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
• Superabundance - an excessive amount of something that is beyond the required amount, possibly with negative effect. 
• Disconnected -  to undo or break the connection of or between something.
• Schizoid - characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, detachment, and apathy.
• Pop - popular culture of the time; including art, music, fashion.
• Fragmentary - consisting of/or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete.
• Eclectic nostalgia -  false sense of nostalgia and pleasant feeling resulting from a number elements that imitate the past.
• Superficiality - displaying a lack of thoroughness or care, lack of depth in character or thought.
• Simulacra - is a representation or imitation of a person or thing.
• Flippant - lacking proper respect or seriousness.
• Fabulation - to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy. (to relate an event as a fable.)
• Pastiche - is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.
• Bricolage - is the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work created by mixed media.
• Aleatory - of or relating to accidental causes; of luck or chance; unpredictable.
• Depthless - beyond one's knowledge or capability.
• Skeptical - doubtful about a particular thing.
• Ambiguous -  lacking clearness or definiteness.
• Innovative - tending to create, or introduce something new or different.
• Obfuscation - to confuse, make something unclear.