HIST 367 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sug, Singularity University, Douglas Rushkoff
11 May 2016
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Shock, and other research i have conducted on the topic. Despite my search efforts across various sources and websites, rushkoff never explicitly states for himself his utopian stance. In the fol- lowing paper, i am going to try to analyze rushkoff through the eyes of other utopians/dystopi- ans studied in this course, while also providing my own thoughts and analysis on the topic. To begin, rushkoff believes we are in an era in which narrative has collapsed. For as long as man has had the power of speech, he has corralled time into stories with a beginning, middle, and end, not just as a form of entertainment, but often containing a lesson or greater meaning. Television was the perfect device to convey these moral, cultural lessons. Rushkoff notes, there is a breakdown of narrative - which is often so ubiquitous that we no longer really notice it.
