WGS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Britney Spears, Temporalities, Ironism
1 Dec 2016
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Lecture 1+2 : political economy part one and two. Two fold approach to political economy - follow the money, who is funding what, spending on what, what is valued, etc. How do particular cultural texts/genres teach us things about the current economic organization of the world - focus on reality television. Weber on neoliberalism makeover nation--- filter 5- the miracle of the market propaganda market. 2008 housing crisis - fo(cid:396)(cid:272)ed go(cid:448)(cid:859)t i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:373)assi(cid:448)e (cid:271)ailouts - turns public institutions to privatized institutions - education, healthcare, etc. Responsibilization: the (cid:862)p(cid:396)o(cid:272)esses (cid:449)he(cid:396)e(cid:271)(cid:455) su(cid:271)jects are rendered individually responsible for a task which previously would have been the duty of another usually a state agency or would not have been recognized as a responsibility at all. The process is strongly associated with neoliberal political discourses, where it takes on the implication that the subject being responsibilized has avoided this duty or the responsibility has been taken away from them in the welfare-state e(cid:396)a(cid:863) (cid:894)o(cid:859)malle(cid:455)(cid:895)
