SOCI 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Supercouple, Fake News, Frankfurt School
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N soci 1000u class 5: brief overview, our first need is to communicate; we are the product of communication, communication systems (the ways we communicate) can determine the content of communication, our communication is capitalist. These markets fail: as a result, we are largely created and controlled by large corporations. We are mindless, unthinking, automated consumers: communication. This is how we come to be as social beings. This is a group of ideas and understandings about a topic that is communicated through language. It is composed of signs and are complex signs themselves. An entire discourse or part of one a word, phrase or idea that seems to self-replicate through society. ** all of these are part of discourse of consumer society ** A blank human space that is populated by discourses and/or memes. It seems to be an entity of its own. But really it is controlled by memes and discourses.
