CS203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Network Society, Michel Foucault, Culture Industry
6 Dec 2015
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With no confusion, no learning, no discomforting no learning darren o. Readings in alphabet and not chronological order (double check) Some foundation keywords for cs203 (theory, concepts, traditions) This course aims to strengthen students" theoretical foundation for upper year courses in. Raymond = theory is a system of ideas that explain practice. Example: theory of climate change, theory of social inequalities, theory of unemployment. Theory informs our behaviour and practice and out lifts. Theory involves what is familiar to us strange. Critical is in the status quo challenging assumption that we take for granted (you need theory because it doesn"t work for you but work on you) This course is designed to provide an introduction to select key concepts in our interdisciplinary field- representation, ideology, hegemony, commodification, the culture industry, the public sphere, difference, raxialization, the network society, and communicative capitalism. Concept is the tool of the trade in doing theory.
