Media, Information and Technoculture 3216F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grant Mccracken, Media Culture, Affluenza
29 Nov 2017
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Final project: creative component (15%, log of creative process (5%, capture your ideas and roadblocks as you conceptualize and execute, 1500 rationale that contextualizes your project in our course (15%) Pointilism: seurat pointillist painting was remade with aluminum cans by chris jordan, trying to make a comment on our consumer culture and how much waste we reproduce. Is it fact based or opinion based: consider the writing style. Grant mccracken reading: our goods are more than just things, they are more than just their use, if we give over our social movements to the market, those who need the thrive. )t(cid:495)s not just about saying this is mine, its bringing onto you all of its meaning (cid:523)how it(cid:495)s been advertised, what it represents) through ownership. Claiming is also an attempt to draw from the object the qualities that it has been given by the marketing forces of: grooming rituals, ex.
