CS341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Avocado, American Apparel, Magic Realism
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Intro: it might be objected, of course that adverisings magic actually works: the use value of many commodiies is their signifying funcion. Late 1600"s through mid 1800s start of print adverisements along with rise of industrial revoluion. Pufmen pufery is when you over blow something i. e. fast food ads enhancing the size of the product food stylist comes in and pics paricular food to shoot like topix . Mid 1800s: streets covered ramping up, paricularly on posters on architecture, buildings, billboards. People complained about this they cannot enjoy the streets they live in without being marketed to. Unregulated streets became illed with handbills, sandwich boards etc people wear signs, hand them out, adverise on the streets miracle cure pills etc. Victorian bill posing this is how the establishment of nyc came about. Series invenions i. e. nestles milk, cadburys products people quesioned adverising felt that they were bad.
