Myth, Society, and Mass Media (Group Discussions Continue) • Boorstin, “The Image” pp. 109-123, 181-239 (handout) • Brookes, “On Paradise Drive” (handout) • Barthes “Myth Today” (MCS) • Bordieu “The Aristocracy of Culture” (MCS) The Second Sex (handout) Eros & Pathos (handout) Questions to Consider and Discuss in Week 8 Discuss the claim that the satisfaction of primary human needs [is] now met in the most summary manner, by a ceaseless manufacture of pseudo needs. Are pseudo events a result of our desire to want more than what reality has to offer? Discuss the semiological relationship of what Bathes calls “myth” in the context of pseudo events, pseudo needs. |