Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Lecture Notes - Mass Production, Where We Are, Scientific Management
8 Oct 2013
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Modernism: modernity"s mirror: from farm to war, industry"s birth pangs. A: a cultural response to modernity the machine. What: alienation, loss, disruption, exhilaration, refutation, resistance, renewal. Modernity is the forces of industrial culture (cars, cell phones, computers, simple engineering) largely based on oil, machine (where we are now). A: artists separate themselves, as ________ they interpret the social, political, personal ills they watch in action around them. New and surprising modes or forms arise reflecting the shock o the machine on culture. Collision of the iron horse and the iron train: industry"s birth pangs. Take labor and break it up into component parts. The more one can sell to everyone, the better: taylorized humans. What happens to human beings when they come to work in the factory; we get used to having things rather than having a life. Fred taylor uses scientific management to manage a factory.
