CMNS 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Planned Obsolescence, Banksy, Labour Power

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Le grand palais "dream worlds: the grand palace is where the 2018 chanel fashion week took place demonstrates that it still represents consumption and one"s desires (ex: celebrity sightings) Banksy: high/low art of his street art, just looks at whats happening with mass consumption as his art is now sold for half a million. They produce a new need: apple planned obsolescence (people keep buying new iphone) Creative destruction: in the process of creating something new, the old is destroyed, the cycle must continue to reproduce itself in order to maintain profitable, capitalism is always destroying things to be profitable (ex: planned obsolescence) Critiquing the project of modernity: weber points out the irony of using rationality to control people, he views modernity as an iron cage, a better society can be built through corporate management like ford. Characteristics of modernism: searching for the truth attempts to capture the constant newness to find a universal truth.

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