CRIM 3657 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sanyika Shakur, Reductionism, Neuroimaging
22 Apr 2017
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2 short answer essay (20 marks) (4-5 choices) Analytical paper on the film using the themes and concepts discussed in the course. 2 important categories and ways of approaching violence as an analytical category: descriptions, normative. Force: normative aspect is missing, as force is not seen within a context (decontextualized and outside of normative parameters) Aggression: a type of force directed toward as object: freedom of competent action in any given arena. The whole life of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as nan immense accumulation of spectaclesall that once was directly lived has become mere representation . The spectacle is not merely a collection of images, rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images, a world view transformed into an objective force . Debord borrows from marxist theory on commodity and the notion of objectivity.
