In the final episode, we look at the film The Lost Boys and discuss how post-modernist theory explains why everything feels slippery and hard to define fact from fiction. How do we unravel the stories we're telling when everything is self-referential and there is no truth behind anything, including our own personal narratives?
References:
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard (1979)
Symbolic Exchange and Death by Jean Baudrillard (1976)
Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) by Jean Baudrillard (1981)

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