SOSC 2560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Partial Function, Commodification, Culture Industry
4 Dec 2017
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Everyone is free to join any of the countless ects under the role of the market. Capitalism and mass culture the cultural industry : obedience to the social hierarchy, exclusion of radical new experience. The age of mechanical reproduction: walter benjamin (1892-1940, his style of writing fragment (to challenge readers" perspectives) Influenced the fields of art history, cultural studies, media, theory and film studies. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. Introducing a new kind of experience to form political action against fascism. Unconscious optics : distraction & the shock effect: create a collective based on a new mode of perception, forge the amorphous masses & mobilize them for revolutionary demands, demystification of ideologies and challenged the status quo". Art for art"s sake (l"art pour l"art: traditionally both the work of art and its aura were never separated from its ritual function, the cult value and the exhibition value.
