English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Empty Rooms, Megaphone, Walter Benjamin
10 Apr 2018
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Injured and constructs a suit: the suit is a symbol for cutting edge technology, one of the issue is who owns the suit --and iron man doesn"t want the american government to own this, represents debate about weapons. Film: avengers: america believes that solitary film is not the solution anymore, you need a team. The sight of someone in a private world, swaying or nodding to music only they can hear, cut off or walled-in by headphones, is increasingly common. Older people, with memories of a world of face-to-face encounters still fresh in their minds, often react with horror and hostility. The person with headphones is a monad, an alienated subject, an asocial and antisocial being, a repudiation of society, a mockery of a human being, a metaphor for the isolation and mutual indifference of members of the modern world. People who were born into the headphone wearing generation, on the other hand, see.
