Value and Excess:
When people get carried away.
Marx as a writer:
-Experience a transformation
-Bourgeoisie are failed tragic heroes
-Bringing expolitation to life:
--All that is solid melts into air
--destroying myth
Through modernity you lose an identity
-The only consolation is a home life
--R.U.R. Karl Cadek - 1921
A robotic drudgery
Modernity is identified by mass
Emile Durkheim:
-Mechanical solidarity: Bonded by likeness
Organic solidarity: Social Harmony : Division of Labor (organs of the body)
-The atomization of society.
Normalnessness
-Having a SELF to experience:
--crime
--debt
--addiction
--divorce
--domestic violence
--suicide
Benjamin:
fetishism of commodities
Use value:
-The utility of a thing
-How can it be consumed?
Steven Shapiro: "Once more with feeling"
Douglas Coupland: Nostalgia is a weapon
recereation/ conversational
Slumming:
--desipe education or class, you love it.
Reaction to STUFF in the world
"everything's gone green"
-characters suffer what they do not understand
