ENGA10H3 Lecture 11: lec 11
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Pink floyd welcome to the machine (metropolis clip): Machine in the song is a record company. Lord henry makes dorian gray rootless (and consequently becomes more powerful) Huge myth of our time innovation = improvement. Last movie as the tram/p because it could not survive with cinema with sound. This movie mocks sound: assembly line was an innovation and an improvement. No longer clear what anchors moral order (good vs. bad) Go to mall to get as far away from yourself as you can. The transfiguring of ordinary reality is related to the recovery of the capacity to affirm goodness. Time is not a consistent entity how we monitor our relationship to what we consider our meaning to life: what time is changes all the time. Element of premodern time tradition: premodern = gyre (connected to the past; e. g. christmas = birth of jesus)
