FEM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Culture Industry, Bell Hooks
29 Dec 2015
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Culture is the social productions and reproduction of sense, meaning and consciousness, The sphere of meaning, which unifies the spheres of production (economics) and social relations (politics). Popular culture is any cultural product that has a mass audience. Distinction between high and low art: high art educates, inspires, informs, and that low art. The frankfurt school: theodor adorno (high class- classical music, low class- rock, country. Propaganda is a form of mass culture they thought. Cultural practices: lets go get a coffee - a bunch of norms around this. Stuart hall and cultural studies: cultural analysis as being about the construction of reality, not just the accurate representation of reality. Example, the thin blonde girl- what people think about her? dumb, rich. Regimes of representation: individual representations do not function in a vacuum- they exist in a cultural world of shard and accumulated meanings. But there can be preferred meanings- stuart believes we also have strong narratives in our culture.
