Media, Information and Technoculture 2153A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nicki Minaj, Frankfurt School, Classical Marxism
2 Feb 2018
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Music reading: serious music = detailed, popular music = standardized. The culture and civilization reading: matthew arnold, leavisism, takes arnolds cultural politics and applies them to the cultural crisis of 1930, mass culture in america, classical marxism, the frankfurt school. Dialect of enlightment: culture today is infecting everything with sameness. The sony hack (2014: company and employees were exploited, movies are similar because they are all based on books. The culture industry: the culture industry rejects anything untried as risk. Capitalism and culture: argument of today: capitalism subsumes culture according to its own dictates/needs, culture changes to fit capitalist production, producing use value products to producing money making products, not primarily satisfying the needs of people. If the base changes, the superstructure changes: particular points in history in which we choose to do things blah capitalism, people see that they are being exploited. Isa"s (ideological state apparatus) and the rsa"s (repressive state apparatus)
