Lecture Discussion
- Base
- Superstructure
- Materialism - in philosophical sense where all things in society.
- (Base) Forces of production: materials, tools, workers, people, skills, technology - parts of scoiety; from these there are relations of production: master/slave, employer/employee - you either control these forces or are controlled by them.
- (Superstructure) Forms of consciousness religion, politics, culture, state, law.
- Ideas in politics - born out of societies' antagonisms.
- Base/structure relationship - base reconditions superstructures which gives base strength: 'dialetic' e.g. base (forces of production) - men are dominant class - statistically proven. Women - weaker, objectified - which almost reinforces how men should dominate.
- Praxis - unification of theory in relation to the world.
- Culture emerges from base so ideas of culture are ideological.
- Ideology - system of ideas - false consciousness (seem to be true but disguise or mask the real nature).
- Idea of gender: women are the asethetic sex (idea, historically constructed) - women are made to be aesthetic due to their lower/weaker position in society.
- Popular culture vs Culture (Taste: Gatekeeper - ideological - created by ruling class - 'mass culture is bad, high culture is good' - protecting their own classes.
- To have taste - must be taken from elite.
- People from council estates don't have facilities to form taste.
- Bordieu - Cultural Capital.
- Culture is possessed by the ruling class, in the pursuuit of culture you can moce upwards.
- Education now gives you cultural capital - not about development of individual - gain a 'badge' or letters which opens doors.
- Arnoldism - 'Anarchy'.
- Leavisism.
- Frankfurt School - important Marxist thinkers. Nazi's closed down the school - focussed on popular culture - most interesting project, why working class people were involved in systems that were against them.
- 'All mass culture is identical' - like car production in a line - formulaic.
- Authentic culture works on a different levels, it makes you think about it in a real way.
- Dick Hebdige - 'Youth cultural styles begin by using symbolic challenges, but they must end by establishing new conventions; by creating new commodities, new industries or rejuvenating old ones'.
Task
- Read Adorno and summarise the essay.
- Post a link to a Youtube pop video that epitomises Adorno's sentiments.
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Seminar 1... Lecture Discussion and Task Preparation
Discussion
- Panopticism - metaphor.
- Docile bodies - state of conscioussness, easily controlled, take instruction, obedient, not lazy - incredibly productive e.g. Education, Soldiers (trained and disciplined - effect on body, unthinkingly takes orders).
- Surveillance (Studies born from Foucault - D.Lyon)
- Self regulation - training/instructing the self.
- Power - only exists when exercised 'a relationship not a capacity.' One only has power over someone else when that person willingly enters the relationship - there is a possibility to challenge or rebel.
- The Gaze - institution - the Panopticon creates a situation where the Panopticon is personified - with rules and regulations.
(Institution - work places, school - personal situations can be seen as a institution such as families and marriage, as more often than not, a hierarchy exists.)
- Disciplining - shift from something that's physically exercised to a more subtle, mental form of control - like a technology no one to control it - automatic...
...leading to a disciplinarian society.
- Ideas of what is normal.
The Task
- Take 5 quotes from the text and relate to a 'contemporary panopticon'.
*Ideas of contemporary panopticons... School (register as surveillance)... Hospital (docile bodies)
Example: Hospital
Supporting Quotes: '...strict spacial partitioning...' Hospital wards.
'...each street is placed under the authority of a syndic...' Patients under nurse and doctor.
'...everything that may be observed during the course of the visits - deaths illnesses, complaints, irregularities...' Health visits.
'document bears 'the name, age, sex of everyone notwithstanding his conditions' Patient file.
Feedback
- Also makes individuals self-regulate behaviour, especially visitors.
- Not perfect Foucauldian example; MRSA there is a risk of contagion.
Other examples: Facebook, Mobile phones, Media sensationalisation of terrorism - controls behaviour, self regulation, Trains - space, only see carriage, black hemisphere as a camera, 'they' can see you, without being seen themselves, and CCTV stickers - self regulation.
- Panopticism - metaphor.
- Docile bodies - state of conscioussness, easily controlled, take instruction, obedient, not lazy - incredibly productive e.g. Education, Soldiers (trained and disciplined - effect on body, unthinkingly takes orders).
- Surveillance (Studies born from Foucault - D.Lyon)
- Self regulation - training/instructing the self.
- Power - only exists when exercised 'a relationship not a capacity.' One only has power over someone else when that person willingly enters the relationship - there is a possibility to challenge or rebel.
- The Gaze - institution - the Panopticon creates a situation where the Panopticon is personified - with rules and regulations.
(Institution - work places, school - personal situations can be seen as a institution such as families and marriage, as more often than not, a hierarchy exists.)
- Disciplining - shift from something that's physically exercised to a more subtle, mental form of control - like a technology no one to control it - automatic...
...leading to a disciplinarian society.
- Ideas of what is normal.
The Task
- Take 5 quotes from the text and relate to a 'contemporary panopticon'.
*Ideas of contemporary panopticons... School (register as surveillance)... Hospital (docile bodies)
Example: Hospital
Supporting Quotes: '...strict spacial partitioning...' Hospital wards.
'...each street is placed under the authority of a syndic...' Patients under nurse and doctor.
'...everything that may be observed during the course of the visits - deaths illnesses, complaints, irregularities...' Health visits.
'document bears 'the name, age, sex of everyone notwithstanding his conditions' Patient file.
Feedback
- Also makes individuals self-regulate behaviour, especially visitors.
- Not perfect Foucauldian example; MRSA there is a risk of contagion.
Other examples: Facebook, Mobile phones, Media sensationalisation of terrorism - controls behaviour, self regulation, Trains - space, only see carriage, black hemisphere as a camera, 'they' can see you, without being seen themselves, and CCTV stickers - self regulation.
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