Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Timothy Mcveigh, Edward Said, Terry Nichols
6 Dec 2016
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The conquest and control of other people"s land. The penetration of capitalism into non-capitalist parts of the world. The destruction of non - capitalist modes of production or social organization. Importation of capitalism and destruction of indigenous social systems and economic systems in those places. The study of cultures and literatures affected imperialism. Studies both the discourses produced by the colonizer and those produced by the colonized. Binary oppositions between self and other, non european and european. Gathering what was not avaliable in europe and making it availiable to capitalist manufacturers in europe. Thinking about imperialism as a flow of commodities. Imperialism as a form of marketing and advertising. The point of this image was to sell soap, but there are imperialistic - monarchy based advertising. Images of empires and queens for selling ordinary commodities. The people of britain understood themselves to be apart of this imperial project, beneficiaries of the imperial project.
