English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Commodity Fetishism, Profit Motive, Ridicule

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2017
• Professor: Riley McDonald

Document Summary

Production i: ideologies of culture and the culture industry. Examining production, producing identities: reminder: production = the physical, economic, political, and technological apparatuses that go into the creation and distribution of cultural products. The base is the economy: means of production: machines, factories, land, raw materials etc, relations of production: proletariat, bourgeoisie, etc. , private property, capital, commodities, etc. Superstructure (everything not directly to do with production: media, religion, culture. Base shapes superstructure, and superstructure maintains the base: politics, family, education. War and the beginnings of the cold war. Instrumental rationality: progress as power: means that in a capitalist system, reason is the most privileged of all qualities that belongs to human beings and society, (cid:862)te(cid:272)h(cid:374)i(cid:272)al (cid:396)atio(cid:374)alit(cid:455) today is the rationality of domination. It is the compulsive (cid:272)ha(cid:396)a(cid:272)te(cid:396) of a so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) alie(cid:374)ated f(cid:396)o(cid:373) itself. (cid:863) theodo(cid:396) ado(cid:396)(cid:374)o & ma(cid:454) ho(cid:396)khei(cid:373)e(cid:396),(cid:863) Industry: from latin industria (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)dilige(cid:374)t a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455), appli(cid:272)atio(cid:374) pu(cid:396)poseful(cid:374)ess. (cid:863)