Media, Information and Technoculture 2151A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The World Without Us, Chevrolet Volt, Alan Weisman

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2151A/B
• Professor: Selma Purac

Document Summary

Consider the notion that tyler durden is about disconnecting while marla is connecting. Doesn"t favour tyler"s approach to the world, but marla"s. The idea that tyler sets up: claims he wants to annihilate civilization (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) He picks the parker morris building, because it"s next to the national museum. His target, because all human history is, is a record of our impulse to consume (goods, nations, each other) Despises ownership, look at the english empire, they got to name everything (ireland, india, idaho), colonial pursuit. A new placed in front of a city name is legacy. You see nations consuming other nations, but this is what corporations will do. Take on the identity of whoever rapes it first - a violation (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Our history can be traced through the things we buy (cornerstone of some advertisements, development of human history through our conception) (cid:12254) See quite literally that history is traced through a product, and.