Cake

Here's an extract from BrassEye on Cake.
Questions:

1. How did they get these celebrities to appear on the programme?
2. Why do most programmes use famous faces or voices?
3. Should you ever believe anything a celebrity tells you?

Postmodernism

Postmodernism says that these days the typical sign does not have the pattern

Signifier --> signified

but

Signifier ---> another signifier

In other words, signs relate to each other, not to reality. Baudrillard extends this to say that what we experience as the world is a web of signs, not reality but a simulacrum of reality.

The movie The Matrix turns Baudrillard's idea into a sci-fi parable.

This video re-enacts The Matrix with Muppets.

But instead of being actual Muppets (in the cloth-flesh, as it were) they are computer animations.

So this is an animation representing Muppets representing a film representing a theory representing a relationship between signs.

And if you know anything more postmodern than that, please let me know.