Monthly Archives for November 2013
Are we living or just consuming?
I did the readings in a funny order this week, usually I just go through them as they are outlined in the syllabus from top to bottom, but I decided to attack the big ones first this week, so tackled Williams, Foucault and Fiske. It was only when I read Horkheimer and Adorno that everything … Continue reading Continue reading
Are we living or just consuming?
I did the readings in a funny order this week, usually I just go through them as they are outlined in the syllabus from top to bottom, but I decided to attack the big ones first this week, so tackled Williams, Foucault and Fiske. It was only when I read Horkheimer and Adorno that everything … Continue reading Continue reading
A thought on our entertainment industry
We read that art was exclusively meant for the royal and the elite class in the Middle Ages. Masses were not allowed to enter in the area where it was projected. As Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan in the “Introduction: … Continue reading → Continue reading
Conquered, and then…?
In the book Decolonizing the Mind, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o describes his own experience in of how English decisively matters during the education of one child in Kenya. The real power of imperialism resided not at all in the cannons of the first morning but in what followed the cannons–new school. As Cheikh Hamidou […] Continue reading
Last week of readings !! Yeahhh !!! Oh wait….there is more to read….Ahhh the Second paper’s readings … :/
This is how my readings started this week. Fortunately, I was able to save the moment by thinking about the new episode of the Walking Dead!! Yes The Walking Dead is going to make everything sound better. Little did I know that the Walking Dead WAS going to make everything better. As I was reading […]
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Football and media
People of my country, including me, are football’s fan. When our team plays, I mean the Colombian Selection, the country just stops because almost everyone is watching the game. A game, let’s say, against Argentina is an event which compromises … Continue reading Continue reading
Football and media
People of my country, including me, are football’s fan. When our team plays, I mean the Colombian Selection, the country just stops because almost everyone is watching the game. A game, let’s say, against Argentina is an event which compromises … Continue reading Continue reading
The end of the individual
If considering the context in which the School of Frankfurt flourished, one can find solid ground for the radicalism of Adorno and Horkeimer’s arguments. For example, the 1930s was the era of the big major studios (MGM, Paramount, Fox, Warner … Continue reading Continue reading
The end of the individual
If considering the context in which the School of Frankfurt flourished, one can find solid ground for the radicalism of Adorno and Horkeimer’s arguments. For example, the 1930s was the era of the big major studios (MGM, Paramount, Fox, Warner … Continue reading Continue reading
Somebody’s watching me
Power, control, discipline, punishment… These are words that have been mentioned or at least somehow form part of most of the topics we have seen in the course. For instance, in Marxism, we talked about ruling ideas that serve to … Continue reading → Continue reading
