ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Social Center, Walter Benjamin, Visual Culture

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Metropolis = greek metra mean mother; polis mean city, polity and police. When think of a metropolis we think of: Meeting place; intellectuals, researchers (notion that metropolis is an arena where thought. Social center comes together such as in an institution) Field is focus on the city in relation to different scales (transnational and global scale) Media has a strong influence on what social life is like in the cities / metropolis. 2 themes: 1) divided city (rich / poor) and 2) contested city. These 2 themes are also central to this course. Saw writing of cities as translating images into words; he saw something imagistic of cities. Techniques of close up, time-lapse, slow-mo, montage and moving camera revealed how humans viewed cities and landscape during time. Time-lapse shows the real life of the city, transcends individual and our capacity. Individual images put together put into film helps us to perceive days and months in a matter of minutes.

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