COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Craps, Marcel Duchamp, Dada

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 2003
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

This week: benjamin takes a part of marx, freud and adorno of mass culture critique, and makes a slightly different. Technology: transformation from traditional to modern society is about technology, technology used to refer to a treatise, like (cid:862)how-to-book(cid:863), refers to so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g deali(cid:374)g with science. Over time it has changed to refer to the thing itself. In other words, we use technology to refer to something like an ipad rather than how one uses the ipad to do such and such a thing: the development of technology free us up. You can say whatever you want, but people start to say thing are nasty: what happened when technology arise, marx: is talking about the factory, labor mass produce. What"s good is that they can make more things. What is technology liberate: lost: lose its originality, gained: everyone can see it, if we take a picture of this piece of art, we have no control of where is going.