POSTMODERN CONDITION
There are many ideas of what is Postmodern, some stem on image duplications or manipulations; but the idea of appearances being premier to images are never truthfully acknowledged. According to Kant, appearances are something premier (not second to images) which allow for specificity of knowledge. The process where appearance(s) interpolate to an image(s) has led me to question Postmodernity. This genre has dominated a physical realm, and has become a condition where the image dominates physical reality.
This seems to be my interest and what I am entailing a theory towards appearances or the new icon: as we understand what is hyperreal[1], we can see the unfolding of images from bombardment and synthesizing; where a synthetic essence unveils a new appearance.
There is something to be fostered when created duplicate environments are synthetically placed in a-typical surroundings, as a dry plaza form to a humid plaza form. What is created is a deviated functionalism; a new act. In Houston Texas, the re-created formal environmental type is negligent; people are indoors away from high levels of humidity. Interestingly what is, are environmental anomalies, such as vacant furniture stores claiming to be open though they are near closure? These contradictions such as newly created bike routes in derelict post-industrial environments provide an essence to the non-functional, something that is disassociated with the human. But as we understand the hierarchical stances perpetuated by the Greeks, such as scale which is dictated what is godly rather then people, we can see in the postmodern condition it is to neither (that which is dominant), what is celebrated is the object itself, the residual aftermath of man becomes an object in itself, a non preferential element. Something which is not necessarily pertaining to life.
[1] WIKI -In semiotics and postmodern philosophy, the term hyperreality characterizes the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures. Hyperreality is a means to characterize the way consciousness defines what is actually "real" in a world where a multitude of media can radically shape and filter the original event or experience being depicted. Some famous theorists of hyperreality include Jean Baudrillard, Albert Borgmann, Daniel Boorstin, and Umberto Eco.
