MPS 508 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Literary Theory, Roland Barthes, Christopher Phillips
17 May 2016
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We become numb to certain images, though some still affect. Believed that image consumers would revolt against capitalism. Photography shatters capitalist bourgeois art is no longer based on rituals but on argues that with photography, the aura is gone, because there"s so many of them. These theories emerge from the social and political reality around them. A defense against the passage of time. Does not create eternity, it embalms time, rescuing it from its proper. In the modern world, the creation of an ideal world corruption. Literary theorist and cultural critic focused on the way in which photography led to cultural myths on a massive scale (ex: families taking photos of happy moments only) In mythology, he asserted that photography is not nature, and there is no universal language in photography. On photography is about the political ideology of photography, sontag was worried about mass photography in capitalist society.
