The Information Age

The Information AgeModernism was a diverse cultural and art movement in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries whose commonality was a break with tradition (Pamela, 2013). The ‘post’ in postmodern suggests ‘after’ (Pamela, 2013). Therefore, postmodern or postmodernism is a response to the presumed certainty of objective or scientific efforts to explain reality. It denies the existence of any ultimate standards, and lacks the optimism of there being a philosophical, religious, or scientific truth explaining everything for everyone (Pamela, 2013). Postmodernism society cannot be described without focusing on technology. The rise of digital technology was accompanied by the utopian hopes for the change of social structures. Three illustrations of postmodern art in the Information Age are Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans,” Borges’ “Borges and I,” and Parliament Funkadelic’s “Give Up the Funk.” Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans” was created in the year that Pop Art emerged as the main novel artistic movement (Phaidon, 2020). Looking for subjects to paint, Warhol was inspired to buy cans from Campbell’s and started tracing projections onto canvas.“Borges and I” is a short story by Argentine poet and writer, Jorge Luis Borges (Monegal, 2020). It is among the short story collection in ‘The Maker’