English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Proletariat, The German Ideology, Raymond Williams

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2017
• Professor: Riley McDonald

Document Summary

Why thinking historically in popular culture matters. When someone says that something is racist that are referring to a history of popular culture. ***refers to people as humanity and not men, as a gender!! Implies that everything happens because of something, because a happened b will happen. It implies that there is a universal or trans historic idea to history, the characters, goals never change. These qualities are not innate or essential to humanity!!! The notion of history changes as we things about humanity. Historic materialism: a means of understanding a history of popular culture. Thus: historical materialism is the means of understanding culture and society by the physical technologies and labour practices, and how they change over time. (cid:862)culture (cid:271)oth refle(cid:272)ts a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)es so(cid:272)ial orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d the distri(cid:271)utio(cid:374) of po(cid:449)er. [p]ower moves between and among individuals and institutions; this movement is registered (cid:449)ith parti(cid:272)ular i(cid:374)te(cid:374)sit(cid:455) i(cid:374) the do(cid:373)ai(cid:374) of popular (cid:272)ulture(cid:863) (cid:894)o(cid:859)brie(cid:374) & ze(cid:373)a(cid:374), 9, (cid:1005)(cid:1006)(cid:895)