Fragmentation
Related: deconstruction - modernism - postmodernism - metanarrative - nonlinearity - technique
Mini-essa: cinematic time and fragmentation
If one accepts fragmentation as a basic feature of postmodernism, one has to conclude that this fragmentation was already a feature of modernism. [Jun 2006]
Dissolution, fragmentation. simultaneity, decomposition -- these are words in the service not of obfuscation but of clarification. They denote not escape from reality, but a more fundamental analysis by a dissection of its ever growing complexity. "The art of our century," says Katherine Kuh, "has been characterized by shattered surfaces, broken color, segmented compositions, dissolving forms and shredded images. During the last hundred years, every aspect of art has been broken up -- color, light, pigment, form, line, content, space, surface, and design." (Katherine Kuh, "Break-Up", 1965) From the fragmentation of color by the impressionists to the broken distortions of the expressionists, from the segmentation of surfaces and planes by the cubists to the surrealists' destruction of space and time, from the abstract expressionists' attack on form and pigment to the dadaist- pop subversion of art and the conceptualists' reduction to structure and non-meaning, the "break-up" of form and content in modern art is complete. -- Amos Vogel in Film as a Subversive Art (1974)
Definition (literature and art)
In literature, fragmentation is a broad term for literary techniques that break up the text or narrative. Fragmentation is characteristic of postmodernism. Related techniques are collage and nonlinear narrative. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation [Mar 2006]
Definition (sociology)
In sociology the term fragmentation reminds me of Marx's theory of alienation and Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt.
In urban sociology, the absence or the underdevelopment of connections between the society and the groupings of some members of that society on the lines of a common culture, nationality, race, language, occupation, religion, income level, or other common interests. This gap between the concerned group and the rest might be social, indicating poor interrelationships among each other; economical based on structural inequalities; institutional in terms of formal and specific political, occupational, educative or associative organisations and/or geographic implying regional or residential concentration. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation [Jul 2006]
See also: alienation
Fragmentation word sample
Gaetano Pesce (1939 - )
He proposes a fragmentation of volumetry and space that is accentuated by a diversification of materials , producing a functional architecture whose visual ...Anatomy
Now contemporary artists interested in cultural constuctions of the body are reinvigorating the subject, with the fragmentation of human form being a prime ...Postmodernism
In literature, fragmentation is a broad term for literary techniques that break up the text or narrative. Fragmentation is characteristic of postmodernism. ...THE DESTRUCTION OF PLOT AND NARRATIVE from the book Film As a ...
Alienation is caused in the love scenes by fragmentation and in the interview scenes by the use of real time. This prevents conventional "identification" ...THE WORLD VIEW OF SUBVERSIVE CINEMA from the book Film As a ...
Dissolution, fragmentation. simultaneity, decomposition -- these are words in ... (26) From the fragmentation of color by the impressionists to the broken ...Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
In this new age, humankind will move from individualism and fragmentation to a collective identity, with a "tribal base." McLuhan's coinage for this new ...Intellectuals
... the authority of those would - be - ideals ( sometimes called metanarratives ) are subverted through fragmentation , consumerism , and deconstruction . ...Popular culture
This brings us to a second problem humanist intellectuals face, that is, the fragmentation of the public. 19th century intellectuals could still tell ...Rock 'N' Theory: Autobiography, Cultural Studies, and the "Death ...
... of the performative ethos of communitarianism--has been subjected to the micro-differentiation and super-fragmentation of the contemporary media-market. ...Postmodern literature
Postmodern literature argues for expansion, the return of reference [as opposed to the cult of originality], the celebration of fragmentation rather than ...Subculture
Subculturalists, he concludes, are postmodern in their identification with fragmentation and heterogeneity but modern in their commitment to individual ...Germany
Its aesthetic theory, also, seems very different in favoring fragmentation and incompleteness, rather than only perfection and unity. ...Postmodern art
Unlike modern art, postmodern art does not approach this fragmentation as somehow faulty or undesirable, but rather celebrates it. ...Underground film
... underground cinema as a powerful and subversive medium functioning through a fragmentation of official/normative modes of production and distribution. ...Archigram
... upon the other strand of (contrary) modernist themes -- the literary and painterly paradigms of fragmentation, discontinuity and ironic commentary. ...Linda Hutcheon
... to the quotation from a canonical text when it is transported into a postmodern text which uses fragmentation and irony to subvert the original meaning. ...Juxtaposition
Benjamin used montage and fragmentation as a new way to understand and write history. -- e-Arcades by Robin Michals via ...Postmodernity
Among these features are included globalization, consumerism, the fragmentation of authority, and the commoditization of knowledge. ...June 2006 Jahsonic (02) magazine
The historical experience of World War One and its aftermath of broken and shocked bodies shaped a preoccupation with fragmentation in both film and ...
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