'Postmodernism is what you have when the modernisation process is complete and nature is gone for good. It is a more fully human world than the older one, but one in which 'culture' has become a veritable "'second nature"...'
'Postmodernism is the consumption of sheer commodification as a process..."
Technical Difficulties!
... and a blow to my confidence with this module
Edited to add (13th April 2017): At this stage in my research I encountered a whole host of technical difficulties - from my Virgin Media box losing its connection to w-fi, having had the box for 6 years and needing a replacement, which took 5 days to arrive and no technician to install it. Enter me, someone who can barely see, fitting an internet box with instructions being read aloud by my mum who kept asking, "IS it done yet?" I do surprise myself and managed tog et it sorted out for everyone's devices in the house!
Also edited to add (29th April 2017): on Wednesday evening (26th April 2017 - hand-in for everyone else and the beginning of my extra time) I went out to dinner with the Board of Governors to celebrate the year of meetings drawing to a close, but on the way home dropped my phone down a drainage grate upon arrival back to my student accommodation. With holding my cane, my bag, purse, 3 trays of food and my phone in my lap it was near impossible to pay the driver. The taxi driver wasn't particularly helpful in wanting to hold any of my things to help make it easier for me to pay him and when leaving the car all of my items dropped out onto the floor. Great! I managed to get everything together - apart from my phone. I did feel a drainage grate embedded into the tarmac, however... Panic ensued. It was 10:30pm at night and Leeds City Council wouldn't be available to get the grate up for me. I'm not a teenager who abuses their instagram feed - I'm someone who is nearly blind whose phone is their life - helping to guide their Guide Dog and themselves safely to new locations where they haven't learned the route of and helping them with this COP module. Life = over.
One fire truck, 4 firemen, one drainage grate lifted and one mobile phone in a biohazard bag later - I was left without a phone which is what I use to take a photograph of each and every single page of the books I have loaned from the library, which is then converted from text to speech in an app called the KNFB reader. A time-straining, non-headache inducing and super-fun experience!
One fire truck, 4 firemen, one drainage grate lifted and one mobile phone in a biohazard bag later - I was left without a phone which is what I use to take a photograph of each and every single page of the books I have loaned from the library, which is then converted from text to speech in an app called the KNFB reader. A time-straining, non-headache inducing and super-fun experience!
It's a fantastic app and helps me to read my mail and printed ephemera with ease, which people still somehow want to send to me in small print?, and being without it stranded me for 3 days. I now have a new iPhone with the app reinstalled but time has been lost and I have lost my confidence with this module. I'm trying really hard to get my final piece of writing finished and to go back over my other pieces of work but I had just lost the motivation, the interest and the inspiration. I was doing so well and think I've uncovered some really interesting research to synthesise with this module but my confidence has been knocked and I just want to curl up and be swallowed by my duvet.
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