Monday, March 3, 2008
A Question for the Mid-Term
Provide a brief account of Marx's critique of the fetishized commodity (approximately one of the roughly 4 pp. or so of your complete response), and then discuss how [1] Klein's discussion of the Logo, [2] Debord's discussion of the Spectacle, [3] Benjamin's discussion of Aura, [4] Horkheimer and Adorno's discussion of the Culture Industry, [5] Barthes' discussion of Myth, [6] Harris's discussion of the Futuristic, [7] Mercer's discussion of Racial Fetishism (choose just one of these) is, on the one hand, indebted to Marx's account in your view but also, on the other hand, departs from it in some key way.
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thank you
This posted question is the one Dale first gave us about Marx, and the one that is going to be on the midterm for sure. What about the other two midterm questions Dale gave us in class yesterday? If anyone knows where they are posted, please let me know.
Thank you.
i was light-speed typing (a skill i picked up in the future).
1. How does the treatment of the figure of the Spectator differ in Wildes’s "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" from its treatment in Debord’s "Society of the Spectacle?" What political significance attaches to these distinct treatments in their respective texts in your view?
2. How do the differing attitudes toward German expressionism conveyed in Ernst Bloch’s “Discussing Expressionism” and in George Lukacs’ “Realism in the Balance” provide a Window onto the larger stakes of their differing views on the relation of aesthetics and politics?
Thank you very much, Seth!!! :-)
Kat
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