here's an article i wrote for Owen and Jim at European Echo. i am very grateful for them allowing me to publish it. link to the original article: http://europeanecho.com/2018/01/14/kinda-real-kinda-ooh-pc-music-and-postmodernism/ “People come to live in pure simulations, replications of reality that resemble it in all aspects save they are representatives through and through” - Livkin and Ryan, 2004 Postmodernism; a vague, novelty, umbrella-defining term often used by pretentious art critics and people with JSTOR memberships to pigeonhole the abstract and define polarizing contemporary media. Often creating art that openly criticises society, consumerism, and advertising, postmodernism has flourished into arguably the leading philosophical counterculture of the 2010’s, viewing the status-quo of today through Orwellian spectacles. A movement that developed in the mid-20th Century, postmodernism itself relies more or less on its consumer’s interpretation, changing and manipulat...