SOC408 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: We Exist, Binge-Watching, Commodity Fetishism
24 Dec 2015
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Find a really strong point that is on your side. ), aspects of needs/desires, society, harmful ways (what is standard, who says its harmful or not?) 5 mins our precise point (page and author) Illuminate what insight is show you understand what it is about and then talk about weak point: paragraph, sentence, etc o, why is it powerful? o. Everyone find a point that they want to talk about o o. Modernity does not : end of paragraph 1 p100 o. Status: things that are in get tired fast. Ie phones aren"t used to its 100% to its capacity: oscillation between feverishly stimulated or utter boredom. Ie binge watching seasons of a show. But people replace phones because they need the new change/trend: to abolish alienated labour, you have to abolish private property. People are rising in middle class but the bottom will claw the middle class back down. Right now welfare is -900 a month.
