COMM 3335 Lecture Notes - Pathos, Louis Althusser, Selfishness
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Memory, collectivity, pneumonic devices, elders were keepers of truth, verbal performance knowledge based on memory, experience, and/or performance historically contingent, changing as economic/political situations change no existing, concrete record used to argue malleable collective = no single person owns/creates knowledge based on themes. Themes: happiness= beyond satisfied, content, knowing when you"re satisfied, success = determination, hard work, driven, confidence, financial stability, where do these come from = media, family, surrounding, social constructs and science, the individual, obstacles are individual, broader picture is not important, it"s up to you to make yourself happy, it is not a given, power to choose. How is the term used: to refer to a systemic body of ideas articulated by a particular group of people, to indicate how some texts/ practices present distorted views of reality to conceal/ neutralize power structures (in the interest of the already powerful)
