Media, Information and Technoculture 2151A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kidult, Neil Postman, Consumerism
31 Mar 2017
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What they consume, how one establishes their identity, they are an older demographic engaging with a younger demographic. With our generation, what we consume has become normalized: it"s a behaviour that has come to demonstrate our demographic. If a utopia is an idealized society, the dystopia is the negative counter stance, a nightmare construction of the world. Pain and deprivation: become the instruments of control, ex. Predicts things like instant messaging and the internet. Humanity lives underground, in a structure called the machine. Each person who lives in the machine lives in a cell which takes care of all your needs with the push of a button. Because of this, people rarely end up leaving. In order to communicate, they use iming and video calls. Vashti and kuno live on opposite sides of this machine. Kuno convinces his mother to visit, and he says he has left the. Vision of degraded humanity: pixar"s wall-e.
