Postmodern Theorists

Kirby Fergusson
Everything is a remix
The belief that everything is connected, that 'originality' is impossible and that creativity relies on the ability to copy, transform and combine.

Unattributed (a general postmodern theory)
Parody
An imitation created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work

Unattributed (a general postmodern theory)
Homage
An imitation created to respectfully reference previous work. It celebrates rather than mocks.

Lyotard
Grand and Little Narratives
Essentially 'big stories' and 'little stories' which we use to interpret and understand the world around us (e.g. Science and Religion)

Levi Strauss
Bricolage
Taking an item and placing it in a new context to create a new meaning (e.g. a punk using a safety pin as a nose piercing)

Addition - Add something extra to the narrative
Deletation - Taking something away from the narrative
Substitution - Substituting something within the narrative
Transportation - Taking two unconnected things and adding them together.

Jameson
Criticism of Postmodernism
It is vacuous and trapped in circular references

Baudrillard
Simulacrum
An image without the substance or qualities of the original (e.g. a can of coke)

Baudrillard
Hyper-Reality
An inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality (e.g. google glasses, computer games)

Julia Kristeva
Intertextual Reference
The shaping of texts' meanings by other texts (e.g. Inglourious Basterds refs)