HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gangsta Rap, Corporate Capitalism, Adaptive Capacity

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Professor L.Visano

Document Summary

Overview a blas attitude: moods of boredom and anxiety. an adaptive capacity. fight against. Passing time - it becomes an event, and extinguish themselves to get excited in-betweenness. a crisis of meaning. Boredom, in youth, is experienced as this lingering or waiting that is almost a waiting for life to begin". trouble as a solution to environmental constraints. Children who are bored, they want to be stimulated. For children, something that is violent is not boring . Form and content of popular culture: cool cultures as mediated. Cool - whether in your appearance, the way you talk . Presentism- based on the present, the existential moment becomes important. Maximize gain, minimize pain among themselves to the present . Living in the moment - lack of perseverance- we do that constantly - youth especially. Part of being cool is having materials . Essentially, everyday life for youth is colonized by corporate capitalism.