3 Matching Annotations
  1. Oct 2024
    1. the spectacle

      for - definition - the spectacle - Situationist International - adjacency - the spectacle - manufacturing consent

      definition - the spectacle - Sittuationist International - A unified critique offered by the Situationist International of advanced capitalism - The critique was concerned with the insidious use of mass media and entertainment to subvert individual expression through lived experience by - substituting it with mass media images as proxies to directly lived experiences - which leads to mass consumption of commodities produced by advanced captalism - creates far-reaching passive second-hand alienation that harms both the individual and society

      adjacency - between - the spectacle - manufacturing consent - adjacency relationship - The spectacle is closely related to Noam Chomsky's work on manufacturing consent

  2. Jun 2024
    1. Those larger goals highlighted edu-cation for good citizenship; to them great books were more of anantidote than a contributor to that bland, conformist mass culturefeared by mid-century critics (left and liberal and conservative) anddescribed by cultural historians.

      How, if at all, did the great books idea contribute to the idea of Manufacturing Consent for the 20th century?

  3. May 2023