nichole 2-26

So I was reflecting back on the test after reading my spare time book, Popism the Warhol Sixties, and i feel like this quote put a lot into perspective for me as we were tested on defining Postmodernism this exam.

"We were seeing the future and we knew it for sure. We saw people walking around in it without knowing it because they were still thinking in the past. All you had to do was KNOW you were in the future and thats what put you there."

Postmodernism as defined here and as we were asked to do on the test, occurs AFTER the present. Just have to understand that there will always be postmodernism and Habermas would argue, that its always continuing on into the future.
For those that dont know, Andy Warhol was an artist in the 60s who lead the art world into pop culture. He made common house hold items, like campbells soup and bananas, popular and into a work of art. He was at first ridiculed for his quirky sense of art then wildly accepted and praised for his works of art. Currently people are questioning if what he did was really art but as the price tag will show its commonly known as art. Benjamin was a big advocate of the "name defining the cost" theory. In this case people are willing to pay millions of dollars for some art that is of a banana simply because they can then say that they own a Warhol.
I am a huge supporter of people that venture into unknown territory and take risks to do something never before done and love to see that, as it did in Andy Warhol's case, it pays (literally) off in the end. The quote above is his secret to living in the future and I think that after this test we all might feel like we understand that we are a part of the future if we want to be.