CMN 2180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Economic Determinism, Populism, Absolute Difference
19 May 2016
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Relationship of the fact that we make a difference between high and low culture. Relationships of power exist in a society where very few people are legitimate. The heirarchy of the best most sophisticated of art form are of the elite. Semiotic battlefield - battle over meaning semiotic gurrilla warfare - we manipulate the meaning of wealthy, rich, political, product or a brand. Jhon fiest - pop culture is potentially and often actually progressive. Economic determinism - marxist theory, the mode of production determines social ordereconomically based. Partial determinism - a production system like tv which lives of ad as its revenue it can"t constantly make content that backfire the advertisers. No absolute difference between high and low pop culture everything about taste is arbitary construction - individual to you. Jean bour dillary despite the culture of bullshit people are able to distinguish truth or fact from today. Hyperreal is a condition that enacts but copy resists.
