FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Culture Industry, Instrumental And Value Rationality, Neoliberalism
11 Apr 2018
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Pop culture often gets represented as non-essential but we make sacrifices to have access to it. Some of the major exports of the usa are cultural exports. Looks at the economy and we are learning things about capitalist modes of production as we live inside a capitalist system. 50 shades of grey we can see that perhaps. Trilogy"s are often critiqued for just being about money instead of artistic integrity. The dialectic challenged the enlightenment myth of progress lots of narratives of progress are getting produced in popular culture and in terms of industrialization. Product placements are at large not always obvious. The cereal aisle at the grocery store. Distracts us and shows that we are deeply limited. Even the organic cereal, still a lot of bad things about it. The function of amusement is more than the prolong of work: i. e.
