SOSC 2560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Commodity Fetishism, Paulo Freire, Michael Apple
4 Apr 2017
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It attempts to control thinking and action, leads them to adjust to the existing socio-political structure. In this process, arguments based on authority are no longer valid. It enables teachers and students to become subjects of the educational process: democracy in what state, democracy as an empty signifier, a brand & commodity fetishism. Freedom vs. liberation: freedom from politics, negative freedom, inner freedom, private freedom & positive freedom. Freedom rather than breads? : 3 main ways to save democracy: & what is its logic: opinion as personal possession. Public opinion as empty signifier: the universal coldness, thought proves itself in the liquidation of dominant opinion, there is no thought in which the remnants of opinion do not inhere. They are at once both necessary and extrinsic to it. It is the nature of thought to remain loyal to itself by negating itself in these moments.
