Class 8

posted Oct 28, 2010, 12:10 PM by Priya Nayar   [ updated Oct 28, 2010, 12:32 PM ]

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)

Second Link for Eros & Pathos

 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.

Comments