Seminar Notes: Week 2
Presentation - Week 8 (20th March)
The Everyday within 24/7 technology
Each week there will be a journal article for us to access. We will have to use library resources to find them.
Felski's reading was critical of many of the theorists of everyday life, in particular Lefebvre.
- When you look at the theories of everyday life in this reading. there is something cultural snooty about them. The everyday within normal life is burdensome, boring, repressive and depressive. Yet, the task of these theorists is to energise everyday life, which tend to dismiss the mundane in order to create a radicalness of everyday life.
- The everyday is a passive, unconscious and mundane.
- The theories of the everyday are abstractions from everyday life and are not an exact definition.
Ideology
A conscious and unconscious way of thinking, dependent on your close environments. It is a way of thinking about reality.
- There are many different ideology definitions.
- Results from the social practices we engage in.
We all live in the same world, the way in which we are brought up from an early age creates patterns of the ways we think about world.
Mannheim
Ideology are merely sectional interests revolving around some form of a world view.
--> Capitalism is based on the idea of merit. The harder you work and more effort you put in will result in a greater reward/achievement.
Marxist Theory of Ideology
Marxism looks at society as a class divided. How society reproduces itself economically is related to how society
- Are we looking at similarities of differences between the bases of classes.
- Are a set of values that are transmitted to people.
False Consciousness
This is a failure to realise where you are in the world because of ideology. It is a difficult concept to grasp.8
Falling in love is like falling over a banana skin. We are not in control of our emotive responses to most situations in everyday life.
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