i understood more about modernism and post modernism in this 10 minutes video than what i ever understood in 12 weeks of studying it for a class at university....THANK YOU!
I'm glad you decided to push away your fears when uploading this video. This is brilliant. YOU are brilliant, and I can't wait for more of these lectures.
I can tell how hard you worked on this video, m'dear, and it is absolutely fabulous. I feel like I've finally begun to understand something that was only touched on during my English degree. So completely thrilled to be a member of the Unemployed Philosophers Club!
I feel so much wiser. You explained and approached everything so clearly my dear. I know this was a tonne of hard work but you honestly produced something phenomenal in the end!
This was excellent - I did Philosophy at university and you've explained these concepts more clearly and succinctly than any of my professors ever managed to! Looking forward to the next one :)
I practically never comment on videos but I just wanted to say how and fabulous you are. You make me get excited about literature and explain things in such an articulate way that makes me feel I could translate this information to other people! Thank you so much for bringing a dollop of academia to my subscriptions ☺️☺️❤️❤️
In the realm of thought, two movements arise, Modernism and Postmodernism, in the philosopher's guise, Distinct in their ways, they paint a tale, Of contrasting philosophies that bewilder and regale. Modernism, a quest for truth, a seismic shift, An age of reason, logic's powerful gift, Challenging norms, it sought to define, Innovative thoughts in a structured line. Eliot and Woolf, in Modernism's sphere, Fragmented truths, a dissonance clear, In "The Waste Land," a shattered verse, Disillusionment's cry, a narrative terse. Frost's simple lines, a rural scene, Life's subtle truths in the everyday sheen, Modernist echoes in each word displayed, A longing for meaning, a depth conveyed. Postmodernism, a rebellion's cheer, From Modernism's grip, it sought to veer, Deconstruction, a key in its hand, Challenging structures, a bold stand. Vonnegut and Pynchon, in playful spree, Mocking reality, absurdity set free, A Slaughterhouse tale, a war's grim jest, A narrative maze, a postmodern quest. Morrison's Beloved, haunting and stark, Memory's maze in a narrative arc, Postmodern echoes, identities veiled, Truths entangled, realities assailed. Unemployed philosopher, a concept in flight, Between Modernism's logic and Postmodernism's plight, In a shifting world where ideas collide, The philosopher muses, the currents he rides. One seeks truth in a structured hand, The other, a rebel, in a fragmented stand, In this clash of thoughts, they intertwine, In the Unemployed Philosopher's uncertain line.
Unemployed historian here: both of these ideas played a role in the formation of many political movements especially in the later half of the 20th and early 21st century. You channel is wonderful.
This was great and wonderful!! And I honestly cannot wait for the next ones. I really appreciate the readings lists too. Also, the matchstick was great - it made easier for me to understand the modernism and postmodernism, and the mention of Newton and Einstein helped too because I know more about physics than literature theory and that parallel helped a lot. I do believe that kids and students these days should be encouraged more to connect the different things they study and the way you did the lecture is another proof of that. Do I even make sense? Oh, well, thank you! It was lovely!
This was a good summary for beginners on what Modernism, & Postmodernism is. The internet is plagued with people who don't understand what postmodernism is. So having someone like you giving a brief, but a well explained video of it is great.
I am retyping my comment for umpteenth time because I want to express how fucking great this is. This is something I (a state school A level student) have been dreaming of finding on TH-cam. Content fabulous (v v v v interesting), style marvellous (not dumbing-down or patronising, but clear and build well). I am genuinely reeling (a little giddy with excitement) with how brilliant this. Thank you so so much for working so hard to create this (as a long term viewer I'm a little emotional with how proud I am of you), I'll be using it to develop my extra curricular reading for uni applications. You are honestly a marvel 💕
It was amazing, sometimes I had trouble understanding you when you got really excited though it's due to my lack of experience with listening to English lectures about literature and I'd like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to improve! It was informational and interesting and I'm really happy about your choice of topic as postmodern literature is pretty close to my heart! I hope you'll continue making lectures like this, you are wonderful and I enjoyed it thoroughly .
+Virág K Thank you SO much for having the patience to improve your English through me XD I'm not an easy subject to listen to so bravo! Thank you for your support xxxx
I'm studying Heart of Darkness and Dark Roots (A somewhat Post-modernist text) for Literature and this was the most incredible video for my studies! Keep up the amazing work and thank you so much for what you've already done :)
This was really enjoyable. If this becomes a series I will totally look to it as a way to advance my own knowledge. The burnt match analogy really blew me away at the end. And I appreciate you including a suggested reading list. You go girl!!!
I love this so much. I study philosophy all the time but if I went to university I'd probably be unemployed too. Your lecture makes this so much easier to understand. Thank you!
+Erick Aparicio I'm so glad you find it useful! Wouldn't be a lecture without giving a reading list - I thought they were just a good selection of diverse authors which would lead to other suggested readings should you wish to explore further (:
Wonderful Cinzia, Now I get it! Thank you for all the hard word you put in, and your clarity and insight, so brimming with interesting comments, I must watch and rewatch to squeeze all the precious moments......Thank you.....p.s. I covet your spectacles.....
This was just wonderful. i've read almost a hundred page of this stuff and it made me even more confused. You made everything clearer. Thankyou, now i can go do my exam more confidently.
Fantastic video. I was having a debate with one of my colleagues on the use / view of technological advancement and the distinctive differences in perspective between the modernists and postmodernists, and I never thought of using the match example. Thanks so much!
I am a final year school student from NZ previously bewildered and confused regarding the Post-Modernist philosophy, however post watching this video I have gained a significantly better understanding! If I wasn't broke I would happily support your Patreon as the suggested topics you mentioned interest me greatly. All the best for the future. Thank you
ahh this was so interesting! i'm going to study english (as a foreign language; my native language is slovenian) and literature at university next school year, and i think these videos will be the perfect thing to help me prepare a little. thank you for doing it, i can't wait for your next lecture :) (also, you have suuuch a nice manner of speaking, it's so pleasant to listen to) have a lovely day!
+sarahm96 Oh wow best of luck for next school year!! If there's any topic you think will be useful with regards to literary history etc please do let me know (: xxxx
Many intelligent comments below. Some more than others. My advice in mentally separating modernism from post modernism is to analyze Lyotard's descriptions of both in his book, The Postmodern Condition, which you can most quickly access from Wikipedia. For the record, that book was the first to use the word "postmodern" out of the context of art criticism, and it was written in '79. Prob more recent than some would assume. The next philosophical landmark for postmodernism came as recently as '91 in the form of "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" by Frederic Jameson. My own summary: cultural turn toward general skepticism of centralized or authoritative truths that enabled the tragedy that was the twentieth century. Although some people still believe these things so we still have race supremacy, nationalism, and class based guilt
+C. A. DuBois (The Petite Britette) it certainly is worth everyone's time!! I'm a first year uni student and we haven't properly started studying literary theory and movements yet, this is a very helpful starter, thank you so much!
+C. A. DuBois (The Petite Britette) it may sound basic for you but for those who don't study English Literature (or better said, literature written in English) it is quite useful, so please, let's start with the basics and then we can move onto deeper analysis. So I'm with @opaltintedglasses in this, it is wonderful indeed. And quite enjoyable. Thank you so much
You really need not have worried so much. You did great! And with a topic that in the past has always worked like a tranquillizer on my brain down no less. I can't wait to see the next one.
Hi! I just want to say that I watched this video and others of you which finally convinced me that I wanted to study English lit, and I just handed in my thesis on literary modernism and postmodernism a week ago. Thanks for inspiring me! (And now on to my masters)
Ok so yea I can buy that a pursuit of a universal truth and its political enforcement can be dangerous, I don't see why the post-modernist would thus conclude that there are no actual universal truths. We can still be afraid of what happens when people try to convince everybody that their way is the universal way and simultaneously recognize that there probably are some universal truths.
I don't and probably never will study literature theory, but I love reading and I love learning and I absolutely loved this lecture. :) It was so interesting and amazing and I'm so proud of you for getting this series started, Cinzia!!
"The flickering ..." brushing up on post modernist understanding of society while looking into your eyes,, glad this isn't an actual class room. ^^ Thx Cinzia from the past (now self employed editor)
Such an amazing video and lecture, Cinzia! I am so proud of you knowing what struggles you had editing and making this lecture. You have nothing to be afraid of since you're so intelligent and amazing! Lots of love.
This was great! I (german lit graduate) never tackled the subject myself and was left with an indistinct intuition of what postmodernism and modernism was. So excited for more episodes. You actually made me horribly nostalgic for uni. I hope there will be many more lectures (if not by the unemployed but rather the employed philosopher) :) Good luck to you!
Thank you, Cinzia, for all the hard work and nerves and strength you put in this! You did so good! We are talking about it at Uni at the moment and I really did find that very helpful! And I genuienly admire how you got through it and I hope one day I find the strength to overcome obstacles like you did.
That was lovely Cinzia, I know you found this really difficult to approach but it was so interesting and simple to understand. Having only studied science at a university level this is something I'd not had the chance to hear about before so thank you. :)
This was so fascinating, @C. A. Dubois! I really enjoyed this lecture - you're fantastic at it, and every engaging and interesting. Keep it up, girl! I loved your analogy of the match, and the flickering flame of the modernist period. I recently read T.S. Eliot's "Selected Poems" which had the poem "Waste Lands" and I think that is very true. I'm still not 100% sure I understand the post-modernist theory, but somehow I have the feeling that is the point, that everything is relative and abstract, and there can be no universal truth, etc. Ooh, Victorian Literature would be a topic I'd be really interested in, as well as the Enlightenment and Medieval literature. Also, I think it would be interesting to hear more about how the novel came to be, and structuralism vs. and post structuralism - wow, so many exciting possibilities and topics! I am excited! Thank you so much for doing this, Cinzia!
Wonderful first lecture - you spoke with clarity and enthusiasm and those 13 minutes and 33 seconds went by very quickly! Looking forward to more. Well done!! :)
C. A. DuBois Aw thank you for the sweet words, Cinzia. Your videos have done a lot for me, so of course I'm ready with pom poms any time you need a cheerleader!
(con.) i hope the confidence in your abilities grows, that you feel more comfortable about it. i appreciate your efforts a lot amd wish for it to be anenjoyable experience for yourself as well. i was sad to hear how much distress making this brought you, and all the more delighted to see how you shine! you are a great lecturer and i look forward to learning more from you. again, thank you!
Gods, I'm a sucker for that accent. Great rundown. Beautiful metaphor with the match (I will steal it in my asocial pretentious rant-turned conversation). A little rough on some cuts in editing but a nice first. Good luck, cheers!
I would differentiate between modernism and realism as litterary styles, though both are modern in their view on the industrial society. postmodernism is a reaction, all right. but rather towards embracing the futility of existence opposed to trancending it. but I am not tought in the angloSaxon school
As an ordinary person this is a great explanation of the superiority psychosis which confuse the people of the world into believing academics, politicians and scientist have a knowledge and wisdom more valuable than their own.
I love this!I would also love it if you had a couple of pages of notes or points from your lecture that we could print out and absorb as a slower pace.Can't wait for the next one though!
+notLola If I have the time in the future I'll try to but I'm afraid I'm working on a novel as well as applying for work so for the first few I'm afraidI won't have time to but I shall keep it in mind! Thank you
You explained this in a way six 12 page articles and a written lecture from my college professor didn't. Thank you! I feel like I have a slightly better grasp on this subject. :) I love how you used plainer language, or as plain as you could.
and because of this feeling that everything has to be subjective today we have people saying that science must fall... and yes, the people who say that are post modern.
very well constructed and performed lecture. really argued clearly but without "dumbing things down". thank you so much for taking your time to do this. i hope your confidence in your abik
I'm a philosophy student, so anything and everything that concerns itself with philosophical writings is interesting to me really :) This whole series is a really lovely idea btw!
Thanks for this Cinzia, for someone who knows absolutely nothing about this, you kept me engaged and I learnt a lot. Look forward to the next one :) xx
I really enjoyed the content of your talk. You have a great facility for summarizing a complicated subject and bringing out the essential basic elements. I would like you to think about slowing down your delivery and lower the pitch of your voice to make it easier to absorb your undoubted scholarship and knowledge.
So fucking good! Keep it up! I study Deleuze and Derrida atm, you really captured a lot of the spirit of their thinking and brought lots of new insights into my thinking of their thought as a whole and as part of a larger movement.
That was brilliant ! I follow you on twitter and instagram so I know it was a real struggle to edit and upload that video. Congrats Cinzia :) ! I loved it and I'm even more excited for your next lecture now ! I've had classes on that subject but I never understood the difference between the two until now. You are so passionate and interesting you would be a wonderful lecturer ! I really hope you'll do your Phd one day :). Have a good day xx
+ifmarybooks Thank you SO much Mary!! Sadly I'll never be trying for a PhD again but it means a lot to me to think I may have made a good lecturer should I have pursued the PhD. Thank you so much for your love and support xxxx
I have absolute faith that you will get your PhD one day. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. I admit I knew very little about modernism, but this was so interesting!
+lilypad thank you so much Lily! But I'm afraid I haven't changed my mind with regards to the PhD - it's not something I'll ever pursue. It'll be through my own projects from now on I'll embark in research (:
I really enjoyed this lecture it was a great introduction of a subject I was not familiar with. I hope you make more of these because I'm sure that a lot of people will find it helpful and interesting
This video is AWESOME! THANK YOU!!! So much, you helped me with my college homework (English Short Stories reviewing Atwood's "Happy Endings") I finally understand the difference.
Well done Cinzia! In a nutshell, I found your presentation quite informative and enjoyable to watch. Thank You for the list of readings. I think now I have some idea of what the modernist / post-modernist arguments are about. Cheers. Dan.
This was so fun and informative! Thank you so much for all your hard work on this! You are amazing at explaining abstract concepts in a really clear and comprehensive manner, so don't worry about anything! ;) Here's one subscriber who is eager for more! Thank you again! xx
You are so well spoken, and you sound very knowledgeable of what was being talked about in your video. Could you possibly do a video on Egyptian Philosophy? Any aspect of it would be really interesting to me. Keep up the great work girl!
+The Written World well perhaps it's a very good job I got rejected to do a PhD because I wouldn't have been a very good professor if I didn't explain things well enough so they we're understood XD but thanks for watching xx
I merely meant that it is a difficult subject out of my area of expertise and therefore hard for me to understand. Didn't mean to imply anything about your teaching abilities. Sorry if it came out that way. I did enjoy the video and thought your explanation was really good. xx
I didn't realize Sandman would be considered a post-modernist work, but to be fair, I don't have much knowledge of literary movements. Interesting stuff.
Interesting. Editing out all the pauses works very well for Philip DeFranco, who has over five million subscribers. However he doesn't portray himself as a philosopher. It could involve different expectations from different audiences.
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you dont say "Unemployed Philosopher" you just say Philosopher
"Unemployed" is a given
joking love this video
Savage... haha
LOL!!!!
i understood more about modernism and post modernism in this 10 minutes video than what i ever understood in 12 weeks of studying it for a class at university....THANK YOU!
I'm glad you decided to push away your fears when uploading this video. This is brilliant. YOU are brilliant, and I can't wait for more of these lectures.
Well said!
+Sylvia Nguyen (A Suitcase Full of Books)
@@CinziaDuBoisI like that Bambi doll
For a Brit, you speak fast like a new yorker on black coffee speeding through rush hour traffic in midtown Manhattan, lmao, i love it!
Finally youtuber where I don't need to turn the speed up to 1.5-1.75.
I can tell how hard you worked on this video, m'dear, and it is absolutely fabulous. I feel like I've finally begun to understand something that was only touched on during my English degree. So completely thrilled to be a member of the Unemployed Philosophers Club!
I feel so much wiser. You explained and approached everything so clearly my dear. I know this was a tonne of hard work but you honestly produced something phenomenal in the end!
This was excellent - I did Philosophy at university and you've explained these concepts more clearly and succinctly than any of my professors ever managed to! Looking forward to the next one :)
I practically never comment on videos but I just wanted to say how and fabulous you are. You make me get excited about literature and explain things in such an articulate way that makes me feel I could translate this information to other people! Thank you so much for bringing a dollop of academia to my subscriptions ☺️☺️❤️❤️
In the realm of thought, two movements arise,
Modernism and Postmodernism, in the philosopher's guise,
Distinct in their ways, they paint a tale,
Of contrasting philosophies that bewilder and regale.
Modernism, a quest for truth, a seismic shift,
An age of reason, logic's powerful gift,
Challenging norms, it sought to define,
Innovative thoughts in a structured line.
Eliot and Woolf, in Modernism's sphere,
Fragmented truths, a dissonance clear,
In "The Waste Land," a shattered verse,
Disillusionment's cry, a narrative terse.
Frost's simple lines, a rural scene,
Life's subtle truths in the everyday sheen,
Modernist echoes in each word displayed,
A longing for meaning, a depth conveyed.
Postmodernism, a rebellion's cheer,
From Modernism's grip, it sought to veer,
Deconstruction, a key in its hand,
Challenging structures, a bold stand.
Vonnegut and Pynchon, in playful spree,
Mocking reality, absurdity set free,
A Slaughterhouse tale, a war's grim jest,
A narrative maze, a postmodern quest.
Morrison's Beloved, haunting and stark,
Memory's maze in a narrative arc,
Postmodern echoes, identities veiled,
Truths entangled, realities assailed.
Unemployed philosopher, a concept in flight,
Between Modernism's logic and Postmodernism's plight,
In a shifting world where ideas collide,
The philosopher muses, the currents he rides.
One seeks truth in a structured hand,
The other, a rebel, in a fragmented stand,
In this clash of thoughts, they intertwine,
In the Unemployed Philosopher's uncertain line.
@@walkabout16 normalizing lecturing in verse
Unemployed historian here: both of these ideas played a role in the formation of many political movements especially in the later half of the 20th and early 21st century. You channel is wonderful.
Thank you!
And now my head hurts. I may have to watch this a couple more times to truly grasp this, but thank you for making this very informative video.
This was great and wonderful!! And I honestly cannot wait for the next ones. I really appreciate the readings lists too. Also, the matchstick was great - it made easier for me to understand the modernism and postmodernism, and the mention of Newton and Einstein helped too because I know more about physics than literature theory and that parallel helped a lot. I do believe that kids and students these days should be encouraged more to connect the different things they study and the way you did the lecture is another proof of that. Do I even make sense? Oh, well, thank you! It was lovely!
+Andreea P. Thank you so much Andreea - I'm so glad the science references helped as well! xxx
This was a good summary for beginners on what Modernism, & Postmodernism is. The internet is plagued with people who don't understand what postmodernism is. So having someone like you giving a brief, but a well explained video of it is great.
Yes to this, I listened while washing the dishes and had to take notes at the same time. Thank you for doing this.
I am retyping my comment for umpteenth time because I want to express how fucking great this is. This is something I (a state school A level student) have been dreaming of finding on TH-cam. Content fabulous (v v v v interesting), style marvellous (not dumbing-down or patronising, but clear and build well). I am genuinely reeling (a little giddy with excitement) with how brilliant this. Thank you so so much for working so hard to create this (as a long term viewer I'm a little emotional with how proud I am of you), I'll be using it to develop my extra curricular reading for uni applications. You are honestly a marvel 💕
It was amazing, sometimes I had trouble understanding you when you got really excited though it's due to my lack of experience with listening to English lectures about literature and I'd like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to improve! It was informational and interesting and I'm really happy about your choice of topic as postmodern literature is pretty close to my heart! I hope you'll continue making lectures like this, you are wonderful and I enjoyed it thoroughly .
+Virág K Thank you SO much for having the patience to improve your English through me XD I'm not an easy subject to listen to so bravo! Thank you for your support xxxx
When we did Structuralism and Post-Structuralism in Architecture School - I was like, OMG the engineers took over!
I'm studying Heart of Darkness and Dark Roots (A somewhat Post-modernist text) for Literature and this was the most incredible video for my studies! Keep up the amazing work and thank you so much for what you've already done :)
This was really enjoyable. If this becomes a series I will totally look to it as a way to advance my own knowledge. The burnt match analogy really blew me away at the end. And I appreciate you including a suggested reading list. You go girl!!!
+Summer Gahles Thank you RIDICULOUS amounts
I love this so much. I study philosophy all the time but if I went to university I'd probably be unemployed too. Your lecture makes this so much easier to understand. Thank you!
I think it's awesome that you provide a reading list. Thank you so much for that! It's nice to have a general guide for further study.
+Erick Aparicio I'm so glad you find it useful! Wouldn't be a lecture without giving a reading list - I thought they were just a good selection of diverse authors which would lead to other suggested readings should you wish to explore further (:
Wonderful Cinzia, Now I get it! Thank you for all the hard word you put in, and your clarity and insight, so brimming with interesting comments, I must watch and rewatch to squeeze all the precious moments......Thank you.....p.s. I covet your spectacles.....
Been looking through a few of these differentiation videos, and this was the most helpful, thank you 🙏🏼
Terrible Voice!
This was just wonderful. i've read almost a hundred page of this stuff and it made me even more confused. You made everything clearer. Thankyou, now i can go do my exam more confidently.
Fantastic video. I was having a debate with one of my colleagues on the use / view of technological advancement and the distinctive differences in perspective between the modernists and postmodernists, and I never thought of using the match example. Thanks so much!
I am a final year school student from NZ previously bewildered and confused regarding the Post-Modernist philosophy, however post watching this video I have gained a significantly better understanding! If I wasn't broke I would happily support your Patreon as the suggested topics you mentioned interest me greatly. All the best for the future. Thank you
ahh this was so interesting! i'm going to study english (as a foreign language; my native language is slovenian) and literature at university next school year, and i think these videos will be the perfect thing to help me prepare a little. thank you for doing it, i can't wait for your next lecture :) (also, you have suuuch a nice manner of speaking, it's so pleasant to listen to) have a lovely day!
+sarahm96 Oh wow best of luck for next school year!! If there's any topic you think will be useful with regards to literary history etc please do let me know (: xxxx
Many intelligent comments below. Some more than others. My advice in mentally separating modernism from post modernism is to analyze Lyotard's descriptions of both in his book, The Postmodern Condition, which you can most quickly access from Wikipedia. For the record, that book was the first to use the word "postmodern" out of the context of art criticism, and it was written in '79. Prob more recent than some would assume. The next philosophical landmark for postmodernism came as recently as '91 in the form of "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" by Frederic Jameson. My own summary: cultural turn toward general skepticism of centralized or authoritative truths that enabled the tragedy that was the twentieth century. Although some people still believe these things so we still have race supremacy, nationalism, and class based guilt
dont know why you were worried, this is wonderful, thank you~
Right!?
+opaltintedglasses I was just scared it was very 'basic' information and wasn't worth anyone's time! But thank you so much xxx
+C. A. DuBois (The Petite Britette) it certainly is worth everyone's time!! I'm a first year uni student and we haven't properly started studying literary theory and movements yet, this is a very helpful starter, thank you so much!
+C. A. DuBois (The Petite Britette) it may sound basic for you but for those who don't study English Literature (or better said, literature written in English) it is quite useful, so please, let's start with the basics and then we can move onto deeper analysis. So I'm with @opaltintedglasses in this, it is wonderful indeed. And quite enjoyable. Thank you so much
You really need not have worried so much. You did great! And with a topic that in the past has always worked like a tranquillizer on my brain down no less. I can't wait to see the next one.
Hi! I just want to say that I watched this video and others of you which finally convinced me that I wanted to study English lit, and I just handed in my thesis on literary modernism and postmodernism a week ago. Thanks for inspiring me! (And now on to my masters)
Her summation is more admirable than most of the academics and professors on TH-cam with their mumbo-jumbo vitriol against Post-Modernism.
This is probably the best explanation I've heard so far on the subject. Well done.
I love you!
Emy, I love you! ❤
I love you ridiculous amounts too Emy! Sending beautiful and happy vibes to Paris xxx
great lecture- not a topic I knew anything about before this video :)
+themoonlightgirl13 Awesome!! Thank you for watching
Ok so yea I can buy that a pursuit of a universal truth and its political enforcement can be dangerous, I don't see why the post-modernist would thus conclude that there are no actual universal truths. We can still be afraid of what happens when people try to convince everybody that their way is the universal way and simultaneously recognize that there probably are some universal truths.
I don't and probably never will study literature theory, but I love reading and I love learning and I absolutely loved this lecture. :) It was so interesting and amazing and I'm so proud of you for getting this series started, Cinzia!!
+Amenah Thank you for being so adorably supportive
"The flickering ..." brushing up on post modernist understanding of society while looking into your eyes,, glad this isn't an actual class room. ^^ Thx Cinzia from the past (now self employed editor)
Such an amazing video and lecture, Cinzia! I am so proud of you knowing what struggles you had editing and making this lecture. You have nothing to be afraid of since you're so intelligent and amazing! Lots of love.
+Alva Ofelia Thank you SO much Alva
Wow!! This was by far the best video that’s helped me with my eng 102 class! Thank you so much for this!! ❤
This was great! I (german lit graduate) never tackled the subject myself and was left with an indistinct intuition of what postmodernism and modernism was. So excited for more episodes. You actually made me horribly nostalgic for uni. I hope there will be many more lectures (if not by the unemployed but rather the employed philosopher) :)
Good luck to you!
You explained that far better than any of my lecturers ever did.
Everything is amazing. But one thing that I would suggest is if you can speak a little bit slower. Love your explanations
Thank you, Cinzia, for all the hard work and nerves and strength you put in this! You did so good! We are talking about it at Uni at the moment and I really did find that very helpful! And I genuienly admire how you got through it and I hope one day I find the strength to overcome obstacles like you did.
+Silke Maria You're so RIDICULOUSLY kind thank you so so much
That was lovely Cinzia, I know you found this really difficult to approach but it was so interesting and simple to understand. Having only studied science at a university level this is something I'd not had the chance to hear about before so thank you. :)
Thank you for explaining post modernism without completely criticizing it the whole time!! Subscribedddd
You're welcome (:
So cute to see you 5 years ago with the same bookshelf and this confirms your voice is real ;-)
This was so fascinating, @C. A. Dubois! I really enjoyed this lecture - you're fantastic at it, and every engaging and interesting. Keep it up, girl! I loved your analogy of the match, and the flickering flame of the modernist period. I recently read T.S. Eliot's "Selected Poems" which had the poem "Waste Lands" and I think that is very true. I'm still not 100% sure I understand the post-modernist theory, but somehow I have the feeling that is the point, that everything is relative and abstract, and there can be no universal truth, etc.
Ooh, Victorian Literature would be a topic I'd be really interested in, as well as the Enlightenment and Medieval literature. Also, I think it would be interesting to hear more about how the novel came to be, and structuralism vs. and post structuralism - wow, so many exciting possibilities and topics! I am excited!
Thank you so much for doing this, Cinzia!
Wonderful first lecture - you spoke with clarity and enthusiasm and those 13 minutes and 33 seconds went by very quickly! Looking forward to more. Well done!! :)
+Kelsey Lee Bless you thank you so much for always being so epically beautiful and kind to me Kelsey
C. A. DuBois Aw thank you for the sweet words, Cinzia. Your videos have done a lot for me, so of course I'm ready with pom poms any time you need a cheerleader!
(con.) i hope the confidence in your abilities grows, that you feel more comfortable about it. i appreciate your efforts a lot amd wish for it to be anenjoyable experience for yourself as well. i was sad to hear how much distress making this brought you, and all the more delighted to see how you shine! you are a great lecturer and i look forward to learning more from you. again, thank you!
Gods, I'm a sucker for that accent. Great rundown. Beautiful metaphor with the match (I will steal it in my asocial pretentious rant-turned conversation). A little rough on some cuts in editing but a nice first. Good luck, cheers!
Love this. So easy to digest but still contains highly complex thoughts and features! Looking forward to the rest of the series!
Well done. I can only hope my essay's will one day be as thorough as this.
I would differentiate between modernism and realism as litterary styles, though both are modern in their view on the industrial society. postmodernism is a reaction, all right. but rather towards embracing the futility of existence opposed to trancending it. but I am not tought in the angloSaxon school
As an ordinary person this is a great explanation of the superiority psychosis which confuse the people of the world into believing academics, politicians and scientist have a knowledge and wisdom more valuable than their own.
Great video! I think that William S. Burroughs pretty well summed up postmodernism when he said "Exterminate all rational thought."
I love this!I would also love it if you had a couple of pages of notes or points from your lecture that we could print out and absorb as a slower pace.Can't wait for the next one though!
+notLola If I have the time in the future I'll try to but I'm afraid I'm working on a novel as well as applying for work so for the first few I'm afraidI won't have time to but I shall keep it in mind! Thank you
proud of you for getting this up despite all the setbacks. I look forward to more :)
+Hannah Rishel Thank you Hannah
You explained this in a way six 12 page articles and a written lecture from my college professor didn't. Thank you! I feel like I have a slightly better grasp on this subject. :) I love how you used plainer language, or as plain as you could.
Everything you say sounds smart
Fantastic video, so interesting and informative. Can't wait for the rest of the series - you're totally rockin' it!
+Claire Quigley (ClaireQuip Reads) Thank you Claire darling xxx
and because of this feeling that everything has to be subjective today we have people saying that science must fall... and yes, the people who say that are post modern.
very well constructed and performed lecture. really argued clearly but without "dumbing things down". thank you so much for taking your time to do this. i hope your confidence in your abik
+treizeheures I'm relieved I didn't do any dumbing down that's what I was scared I'd done for the whole lecture XD Thank you xxx
your way of speaking made me watch the video 4 times to understand it Haha , now I almost took all these information by heart ... Thank you !
I'm a philosophy student, so anything and everything that concerns itself with philosophical writings is interesting to me really :)
This whole series is a really lovely idea btw!
+foreverVanney :D Thank you xx
Thanks for this Cinzia, for someone who knows absolutely nothing about this, you kept me engaged and I learnt a lot. Look forward to the next one :) xx
+Prina Sumaria Thank you so much Prina
This was fantastic, Cinzia. Well done.
+Better Than Dreams Thank you so much :D xxx
I really enjoyed the content of your talk. You have a great facility for summarizing a complicated subject and bringing out the essential basic elements. I would like you to think about slowing down your delivery and lower the pitch of your voice to make it easier to absorb your undoubted scholarship and knowledge.
I saw the thumbnail and I was like "I hope she has a british accent" (for some reasons). I was not disappointed.
Unemployed = British.
Lmao same
Got 20 seconds in, realised I could understand what what happening, then rewound
So fucking good! Keep it up! I study Deleuze and Derrida atm, you really captured a lot of the spirit of their thinking and brought lots of new insights into my thinking of their thought as a whole and as part of a larger movement.
Oooh, please do a video on structuralism and post-structuralism! This was great.
+homefreylf Oh man, I've just seen the reading list and I'm so excited, thank you!
Thank you for your time!
That was brilliant !
I follow you on twitter and instagram so I know it was a real struggle to edit and upload that video. Congrats Cinzia :) !
I loved it and I'm even more excited for your next lecture now !
I've had classes on that subject but I never understood the difference between the two until now. You are so passionate and interesting you would be a wonderful lecturer ! I really hope you'll do your Phd one day :).
Have a good day xx
+ifmarybooks Thank you SO much Mary!! Sadly I'll never be trying for a PhD again but it means a lot to me to think I may have made a good lecturer should I have pursued the PhD. Thank you so much for your love and support xxxx
This really helped me understand the similarities and differences of the movements. Thank you!
It may be three years too late, but I think you did great.
You speak at such an excellent speed and prosody for my brain thank you
I have absolute faith that you will get your PhD one day. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. I admit I knew very little about modernism, but this was so interesting!
+lilypad thank you so much Lily! But I'm afraid I haven't changed my mind with regards to the PhD - it's not something I'll ever pursue. It'll be through my own projects from now on I'll embark in research (:
I really enjoyed this lecture it was a great introduction of a subject I was not familiar with. I hope you make more of these because I'm sure that a lot of people will find it helpful and interesting
+Doublethink92 I hope I can continue to make these too & make them better
Very entertaining presentation. So refreshing and enlightening. New subscriber from down under!
As an Art History student, this was super helpful! Looking forward to your next lecture! :-)
+Layla Adams Awesome!! :D I'm so glad, thank you
I watched this and I don't think I understand anything more about post-modernism than I did when I started.
Which I guess is pretty post-modernist.
This video is AWESOME! THANK YOU!!! So much, you helped me with my college homework (English Short Stories reviewing Atwood's "Happy Endings") I finally understand the difference.
I love this! Great and concise explanation of both. Love your channel!
Thank you, anna!
Wonderful! You are so incredibly knowledgeable. I do hope you can do more lectures.
+Arizona Jen I hope I do too! Thank you xxx
Wow! An amazing first lecture. Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much the understandable explanation of the differences. I was lost until I watched this video!!!!!
Well done Cinzia! In a nutshell, I found your presentation quite informative and enjoyable to watch. Thank You for the list of readings. I think now I have some idea of what the modernist / post-modernist arguments are about. Cheers. Dan.
This is fantastic! I'm guilty of watching this a few times. Yay for new lectures!
+cakes_lollies Thank you :D xxx
Thank you for the briefing of postmodernism! =) I am still a modernism I would say - thats for the great explaination!
Clearest understanding of the two. Super informative, thanks for the clarity!
This was so fun and informative! Thank you so much for all your hard work on this! You are amazing at explaining abstract concepts in a really clear and comprehensive manner, so don't worry about anything! ;) Here's one subscriber who is eager for more! Thank you again! xx
You are so well spoken, and you sound very knowledgeable of what was being talked about in your video. Could you possibly do a video on Egyptian Philosophy? Any aspect of it would be really interesting to me. Keep up the great work girl!
what a good explaination.. thanks.. relating art to philosophy is the way to understand what's going on..
Ahh I'm really looking forward to more lectures!! You explained this so well and articulately, 💕
+EZ Thank you
This is amazing. I'm very, very excited about your lectures. Thank you so much for the efforts you put into this! :)
+Iva S. Thank you so much xxx
I'm not entirely sure if I completely understand the difference but this was still wonderful. You should be a professor :)
+The Written World well perhaps it's a very good job I got rejected to do a PhD because I wouldn't have been a very good professor if I didn't explain things well enough so they we're understood XD but thanks for watching xx
I merely meant that it is a difficult subject out of my area of expertise and therefore hard for me to understand. Didn't mean to imply anything about your teaching abilities. Sorry if it came out that way. I did enjoy the video and thought your explanation was really good. xx
I didn't realize Sandman would be considered a post-modernist work, but to be fair, I don't have much knowledge of literary movements. Interesting stuff.
This video is so excellent! Perfect companion to Note on the Meaning of Post.
This is fantastic!!! Please please keep making videos like this one!
+Alex Cano I shall!! :D Thank you
You're not doing me a favor by editing out all the pauses in your lecture.
Interesting. Editing out all the pauses works very well for Philip DeFranco, who has over five million subscribers. However he doesn't portray himself as a philosopher. It could involve different expectations from different audiences.
Erwin Woodedge They're not pauses being edited out. They're different takes stitched together.
I agree, though; it's very hard to follow.
It would be a lot easier if she slowed down a bit. The content itself is very clear.
Agreed!
I dunno, I kind of appreciate it. I HATE WAITING!