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I was left confused after reading both readings on Postmodernism. I had to re-read the Disneyland reading to get a better grasp of it, however there were still aspects of both readings that left me puzzled. My main confusion is what exactly postmodernists believe about reality. In the Postmodernist intro reading, it is stated that "postmodernist city-dwellers are alienated, living in a hallucination, an exhilarating blur, a reality evaporating into mere images, spectacles, strange new warps in time and space...". I took this to mean that postmodernists are always living in such a hallucinating and alienated way.  In the Disneyland example, it seems that he is saying that adults go to Disneyland so that they can hide behind the fact that they are childish in reality. Therefore, I took this to mean that when these people are only in Disney can they be their true, childish selves, and when they reenter the world they have to pretend again and hide who they really are. I feel lik

I really liked the statement that these men made in the beginning of the podcast, where they said: "a scientist can say that color has an objective reality. But the colors we see are tricks of the imagination. And there is no perfectly objective view of color". I thought this was an interesting way to start off their podcast because it made me think a little further about my perception of color versus other people's. I enjoyed learning about the differences in the rainbow that we see versus that of dogs. I always assumed that dogs did not see color and only saw the world in black and white. Turns out, their rainbow goes blue, green, and a tiny bit of yellow. Dogs do not have the red color, which is used to make hundred differences of colors, meaning that the significance of not having red is much more than we think. We can see this significance in our simple color wheels from class; had we only been able to use green and blue and a tiny bit of yellow, it would look very

Task 1: Take one white object and place it next to another white object. Compare the initial two colors With my desk lamp on, I placed my shoe and a tissue next to each other. At first glance, I thought they looked almost identical in color. The tissue was a true white in my opinion, and the shoes are fairly knew so I believed them to be very similar types of white. Task 2: Describe the difference in color after further examination After further examination, I could see how the white on my shoe was actually a little faded, and might resemble a more off white than true white. The laces and rim of the shoe where my foot goes started to seem less bright white and more cream or off white, however the rest of the shoe remained to look very similar to the white of the tissue. Task 3: Change the lighting and take note of how the colors change after that. After I turned the desk lamp off, I could tell how different the whites were with less lighting. The tissue remained a v

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