ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Evgeny Morozov, Michael Wesch, Arab Spring
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Lecture 22: change in the age of new media. Social order changes - economic, environment, nature changes; hegemony is never complete. Change due to new means of production. Effects of new media - most recently the internet: social media, financial derivatives. Human factor: dissent and incorporation (social order incorporates dissent) All actually existing contemporary economic systems are complex configurations of capitalist, statist (state involvement), and socialist forms. We never have a pure system; always all of them mixed together. Gender inequality: began in earnest in pastoralism. Unequal development: began in the colonial period of industrialism. Racism: began in slavery (agricultural production during the early industrialist period) Don"t have to be disciplined through violence. They"re disciplined through internalizing what is required by them through prison. In earlier periods, inequality as more explicitly enforced by violence. In postindustrial, hegemonic societies, there is more reliance on spontaneous consent among those who are less equal.
