Media, Information and Technoculture 2154F/G Lecture 10: Lecture 10 Notes
30 Jul 2018
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It may seem more pronounced with people older, it is happening in younger generations as well. Downward trajectory where the kidult has touched people in their 20s, not just their 40s. Neil postman: 2 types of dystopias: dystopia: opposite of a utopia (idealized society/world) dystopia is the negative/counter (nightmare construction of the world, 1. Pain and deprivation (1984: repressive, totalitarian regime, people are controlled by the state, surveillance, control, arrest, torture, 2. Pleasure and overindulgence (wall-e: worlds that are arranged around ford"s assembly line, society is predictable and defined by consumption, getting everything you want, everything becomes the same/uniform, and predictable. E. m. foster"s the machine stops (1909) and pixar"s wall-e (2008: machine stops expressing the stuff that has become relevant in the way our society has been structured, predicts things like instant messaging and the internet, summary: ** active production vs. passive consumption dominant theme **
