POL_S 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Herbert Marcuse, North Korea
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The closing of the universe of discourse (cid:1) Herbert marcuse (1898-1979: german-austrian political theorist. This is specifically chapter four of his work called: the one. Dimensional man: studies of ideology in advanced industrial. Height of the cold war along with the beginning of u. s. (cid:1) Functionalization of language helps to reprel non-conformist thought (. p86) Argues about the contradictions in our language: socialist part defends democracy and despotic rulers are labeled as democratic. Example: democratic people"s republic of korea (dprk) Points out, similar to orwell, that freedom is servitude and. Addresses closed discourse are terms like harmless fallout or. Clean bomb (p. 89: we no longer question the syntax of these phrases. Images combined with these words help to sell products: also used to create a personalized product that belongs to. Points out that acronyms in our language do not reflect the complexity of what they represent: nato, seato, un, dod. Meant to simplify complex organizations that impedes thinking (p. 94-5).
