ENGA10H3 Lecture : ENGA10 Lecture 09.doc
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lithium nirvana raoul haussmann "the spirit of the age" 1920. - the modern self is a narrative construction designed as a driving force for the purposes of acquisition and accumulation, -and the construction of that narrative is loosely based on the design of the internal combustion engine, -and that these myths tirelessly recycled and re- circulated by advertisements offering products they claim will stabilize the fictional coherency of the narrative construction of yourself: products advertised as the answer to all our problems, -when, in fact, they are symptoms of them, - as a result, the activity of this engine of the self drives us back and forth between the experience of deprivation and the temporary relief of various forms of manufactured compensation, like those offered by the hollywood. Romance where love always triumph, or science fiction where humanity always overcomes runaway technology, and horror movies where the monster is always defeated.