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I found both of these articles extremely interested. Not only did they excite me for our next assignments in postmodernism, they brought up numerous questions regarding the movement. From the first article detailing an introduction to postmodernism, I was reminded of an excerpt I read this past spring prior to traveling to Rome. This introduction to postmodernism revealed to me that individuals across all areas of intellect can be considered postmodernists. The article that I read prior was written about Sigmund Freud on the history of Rome. I'm not sure exactly, but I believe this article written by Freud predated the postmodern yet illustrated similar views. I've linked this article to the views of the postmodern movement because Freud discusses Rome's history as a mental entity. It is characteristic of postmodernism to use hyperbolic metaphors to describe phenomena. The way that the Introduction to postmodernism text described an arts brochure for a major university an...

I found this podcast to be the most entertaining and interesting of all the readings/videos assigned thus far. I enjoyed the narrators and how their personalities were illustrated through their discussion of colors. Additionally, I listened to it while driving back to Baltimore from Massachusetts. Not only was I able to put their words into context of the colors of the changing leaves on the trees tunneled in the highway but also the day fading into night as the world around glowed then darkened. I think what struck me about this podcast is how much the narrators describe color as being an individual process. What I understand through their discussion was that color depends on us. Is color a social construct? Though color may be an individual process, we all have shared notions of what we perceive to be red, green, purple, etc. Does this mean that color exists because we communicate about it? This phenomena reminds me of the tree falling in the forrest. The tree does still fall even ...