CRI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: False Consciousness, Public Culture, Art History
2 Apr 2016
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Things are value in culture not for what their worth, but reputaions of the brand. Study the way that decisions are made in the economy. Focused on the culture as a mode of producion. Culture is only accessible to certain people (status, jobs, educaion) Not possible to escape the cultural movement because culture is mass produced. Good culture is culture that people are going to pay accordingly to the market. Business approach argument: if something makes money, it can sill be useless. People make raional decisions because of conforming: sees relaionship as unproblemaic. Pop culture funcions to groom people to be ideal capitalists once it is mass produced. Money spent on product doesn"t have anything to do with its worth. People have been training creaive thinkers (art school, music, dance) Isolate the management of the work from the crat of the work. Disincion between the high culture and the popular culture. Art history, literature: very well established periods of learning.
