COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Media Consumption, Dialectic, Fetishism
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The frankfurt school: the things that alternatives, these questions are not about what movies you like, but what it meant to be individual workers at society. Freud) to questions having to do with art and to apply them to the mass culture. According to above: what can we do to explain what"s happening: the develop a powerful explanation, unbelievable negative: critical theory, components, the concept about dialectic, it is a method of getting truth of something. It is a style of argue something by pointing both sides: when taking both side as a paradigm, you offer and take these two side, and find the third way to resolve the problem. The enlighemnt supposed to do one thing, but it to do something else. Capitalism allows us to do somethings, but what can we say about produce. Those were supposed to free people, but what happened instead is that at the incredible emergence of capitalism.