COMN 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Exclusion, Dialectic, Commodity Fetishism

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 2500
• Professor: Paulaiken

Document Summary

Technical code = relationship of technical design and operation. Technologies are made to develop and reflect the type of society and existing power structure of that society. We think of this as an example as a technical code. We could see how that supports social or cultural ideologies. What"s important is that this technical code isn"t just in technology itself. It stresses the artworks uniqueness, bound to space and time. It is woven into the very fabric of the work. These are what gives traditional art its symbolic and cultural meaning. Mutual modification and reformation, aura is the index. The dialect benjamin identifies is the decline in traditional forms of cultural power.