071213 the last class

Thank you for this semester!

Merry christmas & Healthy new year! ^_^

071206 determining or determined?

* Narrative of redemption

Primitive oral culture
Literate culture
Mechanical printing
Electric media

071129 determining or determined?

* Walter Benjamin "Aura"

* Marshall Mcluhan "The medium is message"

* Central culture Vs Popular culture

071122 who was dissatisfied with old media?

* TV represent in old media
there are so many negative limits
we just believe that announcer says, one way

* technological imaginary
we have languges and use it to think,
so we cannot free to symbolic world like an infant

071115 what kind of history?

the return of the middle ages

18th century enlightenment -> edu -> edutainment

Homo Ludens : human originally like to play

-> cinemas & games

dejavu : already seen through the dreams, sort of illusion

071108 what kind of history?

* imperialist Vs emperialist

even though we didn't see the Great wall,
we can imagine that, and make a fantasy.
this is emperialist as like the colonist
in contrast, experiences of real thing is imperialist

* pictorialist
someone who change photo to picture on purpose
because old people miss the old fantasy

* modernist Vs avant-garde
picaso drawed 3 dimensional faces, but it was on just canvas
this is modernist
but later the fountain by duchamp is avant-garde

071101 Change

1. revolutionaly - change
2. business as usual - continue

cell phone came from telephone, by shape and function,
and business people don't like to revolutionaly change,
because they'll lose many consumers if it happens.