SA 201W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Open Happiness, Gentrification
21 May 2020
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Internet can also have indigenous groups that advocate and connect w other indigenous groups. Increasing homogenisation of social and cultural forms vs. a proliferation of claims to specific authenticities and identities. We don"t have organic community, things like going for coffee, events, slowing down, is all conscious and created. Therapeutic governance - taking a social issue that is a social issue and should prolly be solved through a social solution, but instead psychologizing and psychiatricalizing it and prescribing, diagnosing, and medicating it. The driver behind emotion (feeling charmed after meeting someone (affect) = happy (emotion) Is bodily experience as well as cognitive experience. Eg. mcds happy meal, coca cola = open happiness . Happiness has become a new marketing, political, and governing strategy. The government in bhutan, china try to solicit happiness. Too broad a topic, therefore split into analytical categories:
