CMN2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jean Baudrillard, Hyperreality
17 Apr 2017
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2016 11 3 week 9 discussion of theories related to information society and post modernity. Who has visited disney land: experience is designed and controlled, in the parallel aperitif world, though not being noticed. Modernity: pre modern and modern, rise of communication networks. Technology and the rise of consumer culture(traditional culture) We construct our identity through consumption: seen through the role of commodity , aspirations in life are, impact of consumer culture+politics. Mass media dominate to how we learn the outside world(protest movements, politician), we learn these through media, it is powerful, primary means of us experiencing the world. Critique in style(celebrities are being beautiful but fake: but also works in politics. Breakdown over distinction between art and popular culture. Post-modernism: no singular system of government, there are multiple realities, organizing and governing, experience and reality are illusory and ephemeral . Jean baudrillard: switching of post modernity. Rst: signi cation: second: reproduction, third: simulation(we live here)
