COMM 2102 Study Guide - Neurosis, Holy Crap, Mass Production

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2102
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Definitions: mass, culture industry, modernity, methodologies- these are our building blocks; the foundations. Developments in frankfurt from adorno and horkheime, modern rise of anti-semitism. Capitalism and marx, what is the purpose of art in a society that has turned to capitalism. Critical theory- to document the gap and contradiction between the values society holds and how society is in reality. Adorno thinks capitalism co-opts everything, what we think is rebelliousness is mass rebelliousness. What we think will transcend us will move us laterally. He wants us to think of culture as political. Prominent themes: 1) a concern about modernity and its effects, new ways to express and represent things than ever before; holy crap, what are we going to do? . Modernity is alienating people (means of production, determining their own path). 3) mass production and mass media- new about the world travels fast, communications technologies makes it possible for a voice to travel every and independent of our bodies.