ANT322H1 Lecture : ANT322 Youth Culture Lec 6
Document Summary
Disappearing generation gap: yc commodity of any age, yc reintegrated - no need for a separate youth culture . Technology/objects are extensions of us (marshall macluhan: emotional, cognitive, biological extensions of a person. Letting fingers do the talking reappropriation of purpose: texting has made us pictographic. Culture has become more aural: language for communication rather than reflection. Eliminate face to face communication with adults ~ complication back when generation gap prominent: makes it more relaxed, impersonal (?) Don"t answer who am i? but express it instead till you find the answer: if you don"t, you"ll feel alienated, an enemy of yourself. Engage self with others, join a community. Culture 3 stages (seen in language: myths (beliefs) --- powerful, poetic, heroes --- follow strong people and emulate them, irony --- time when something like the simpsons make sense. Culture reinvents itself after it gets tired of irony and starts over.
