SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cultural Turn, Marxism, Secular Humanism
4 Jun 2014
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Choose 2 big qs and one small q. Review neo-marxist cultural turn: gramsci, benjamin, debord on spectacle; apply to tiff & culture jam/www. adbusters. org, debord looks at power and symbolizes power , can turn anti anti symbol against you, pollution threatens our dna. I introduction to post structuralism the future ain"t what it used to be . / in explosion of texts & flickering images (deals with our information society- over info- questioning future and enlightenment) Beside reading or nihilism vs. sharpen our pencils, try again . 3 lyotard (1924-1998: a french school teacher in algeria: colonial cultural domination, failure of marxist theory and labour union practice. 4 foucault (1921-1984) . compare: what was power to marx & weber: power- knowledge vs. No underlying reality all constructed lyotard is all about listening: decentred subject: constituted by experts" knowledge, exam q: foucault contributes to and radicalizes social constructionism" tradition (garner p. 409), sum: governmentality/biopower (internalized, productive power)
