coldhearted scientist وداد

1. We understand ‘modernism’ by reference to its focus on authenticity and originality, and ‘post-modernism’ by a reactive emphasis on repetition and derivativeness.

2. If modernism ignores the role of discourse in shaping social representations, the post-modernist emphasis on discursive construction has tended to employ a socially unlocatable model of discourse.

On 1. Is this true generally? What phase(s) of Latin American modernism corresponds to the form of modernism to which this passage refers? In which ways, if any, does the Latin American avant-garde not participate in this form of modernism?

On 2. Does modernism actually ignore the role of discourse in shaping social representations? What is a socially unlocatable model of discourse?

Axé.