ACS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mind Control, Adbusters, Kurt Cobain
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Freedom, illusion and co-operation (cid:498)free your mind(cid:499) the beatles. Culture jamming in rebel sell the shopping cart incident to free the oppressed. Counter culture mean to oppose the norms or (cid:498)hype(cid:499) but ends up becoming the out. Suv gives you the freedom of awd and can drive off road away from (cid:498)the man(cid:499) hype. Heath and potter suggest that the vw beatle was too mainstream and did not sell. Counter culture becomes its own ideology, closed off and immune from falsification. Origins and importance of manners (cid:523)e. g. , (cid:498)table manners(cid:499)(cid:524) Manners have changed since the medieval age such as not eating with your hands anymore. Heath and potter say lack of norms is like a life of hell. Heath and potter say we should become much more nice and deal with real problems to spice things up. We don"t need to be whacky to spice things. Neuroses, repression and the sublimation of desire(cid:499)