CLAS 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antonio Gramsci, Reinhart Koselleck, Anachronism
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Clas 206 lecture 5 january 28. As defined in the influential writings of the italian marxist, antonio gramsci (1891-1937) common sense is the embedded and spontaneous beliefs and assumptions characterizing the conformist thinking of the mass of people in a given social order th. Common sense is established by a process of consent to ruling class attitudes and interests which are thereby accepted by society at large as being in its own general interests. >we know it"s entertainment and not real life, but at the same time the nature and power of the medium makes it real. Because of how it transforms into a hyperreal situation. We take it as a slice of reality. Conscious rejection of the story of cinema but an ideological recognition of approx reality. >we want to accept it as part of our every day circumstances. >all films try to make an ideologically motivated reality. >we don"t accept as true reality but as an approx reality.
