Media, Information and Technoculture 2151A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kit Kat, The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
23 Mar 2017
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Pepsi and britney colonial control: companies use this (we are united over time through our consumer preferences, human history traced through a product and through a star who is consumed by the public, ex. In order to purge, you have to sacrifice humanity world: fantasies of destruction, living in the ruins of corporate existence, return to the society of hunters and gatherers, fantasy of a contemporary world in ruin, ex. Alan weisman the world without us (2007: what would happen to the earth if humanity disappeared, (e notes the earth(cid:495)s tremendous capacity for self-healing. If human kind disappeared, it would only take a week for. National geographic(cid:495)s aftermath: pop zero: (cid:498)tufts of hair bone meal and blood meal (cid:499, garden of human sacrifice, in order for nature to grow, humanity has to be sacrificed, romanticization of nature, tyler(cid:495)s garden: our death = nature flourishes. Individuals who practiced different faiths were shown images of different religious figures.
