Wednesday, 14 March 2012

LECTURE 8 - Jean Baudrillard and PostModernism

Hyperreality Theory - 1960's.

- Production Growth
- Industries
- Marketing and Communism.

Bladerunner film = idea of simulacra.

or...The Matrix - what is real? Reality portrayed as a blank canvas to allow construction.

Baudrillard - early writings grounded in Marxism --- Labour - shaping the environment through industry.


UNIVERSAL CONDITION OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

Products can have a 'use' value and an 'exchange' value.
Money abstracts 'use' values; relation to world is indirect.

therefore Directly engaging/transforming with the world around you becomes impossible under capitalism, says Marx.

Capitalism: a man's work becomes an object. Exchange of labour for production disconnects labourer from the products.

Henry Ford - FORDISM . the world's first automated production line - 1913. A worker simply contributes one element to the production of each vehicle:





This efficient production line becomes the standard for post-war manufacturing.

= Manufacturing boom.

John Berger - publicity as a system proposes we alter ourselves and our lives by making purchases.

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