Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Working Class Culture, John Berger, Cultural Hegemony
25 Oct 2016
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Mit 2200: john berger, williams, gramsci hegemony. Painter, writer, novelist (academic art criticism, novels), tv personality. Show about how photography changed the way we celebrate art. Marxist idea, related to ideology subtle complex way. Important for cultural studies and cultural studies tradition. 1891, middle-low class family, father was a crook, convicted of embezzlement leaving the family broke. Left school at age of 7 to go to work to support family. Serious health problems starting at this time, eventually able to go back to school and finish secondary school, then went to university. Hard to know what he wrote b/c of the adverse conditions of which this work was produced. Cultural hegemony is the cultural domination of society by the ruling class: cultural is the dominant force. The ruling class manipulates culture in such a way that their world view (ideology) becomes widely accepted and the status quo is seen as natural: not only economic but cultural.
