Gender, Race, Sexuality and Pop Culture

Shake it Off

I was out running errands the other day and noticed that just about every business that I entered played the Taylor Swift song “Shake it Off” at some point while I was there. It is an extremely repetitive song that has the uncanny ability to burrow it’s hook into your brain so that you will embarrassingly start humming it throughout the day. Once I caught myself doing this I starting thinking about it in relation to the texts discussions about pop music and Adorno’s conversation about how popular music promotes…read more

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#likeagirl

Posted by danihall in Uncategorized

I came across this advertisement for the feminine hygiene company Always on youtube the other day and thought it would be appropriate to share in relation to this weeks readings on Post-modernism. The text discusses Jean Baudrillard’s conception of post-modernism and his claim that “we in the West have reached a stage in social and economic development in which ‘it is no longer possible to separate the economic or productive realm from the realms of ideology or culture”, in short that culture and economics have become one in the same….read more

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