HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Free Soil Party, Social Control, Commodity Fetishism
4 Apr 2013
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= explore the conditions of late modernity as outlined by recent philosophers. = undersatnd the emergence of a global surveillance society and explore its implications. = interrogate the idea of the one dimensional man and its implications. Market capitalism: a market becoming increasingly free dictated the terms of capitalism in an age where steam power was the dominant and new form of industry. Monopoly capitalism: an age marked by combustion motors where the dominant form of industry is modernism. Consumer capitalism: overwhelmingly living in a state of capitalism driven by consumer culture where the core technology is electronics. What was held as important in the early victorian times are rejected. The narrative of the age of late capital. Metanarratives in the age of the late capital. 300 years ago, if you were writing history, you were more likely to have been writing from a position of belief in.
