Mass Ornament Flashcards
Who wrote The Mass Ornament?
Siegfried Kracauer
What happens when humans repress drives?
they go into our unconscious, creating tension, drive returns into forms that aren’t recognisable to us
How does repressing drives relate to Cinema?
Society, like an individual, can exhibit symptoms of repression, hence cinema can distract from this, or live out individual fantasys on screen. which can come from the uncousiness, ususally in the form of dreams
the —- that characterises —- consciousness reflects the —- of modern urban society
- distraction
- mass
- disorder
What is body culture?
the shift from individual bodies to ‘girl clusters’ whose movements are demonstrations of mathematics
What can the pleasure of looking at other peoples body do to us?
It can have a distracting effect on ones consciousness
The —- is a —– of society
- Ornament
- Mirror
What drives people to move to urban areas?
The promise of making money
What is an ideological fantasy of capitalism?
That anyone can make it to the top
Complete this sentence:
The shareholder/boss/organiser stand above the mass
as the spectator stands above the mass ornament
Working all day is against our species being, what does this keep us in a state?
It keeps us in a state of alienation as it is not an expression of ones essence
—- breaks up —- and bodies
- Capitalism
- Nature
How does capitalism break up nature and bodies
through alienation and abstraction of labour
What does the mass ornament do
the mass ornament preserves the body and nature (that are broken up by capitalism) in a reduced fragmented form
in what state do the working class identify with the mass ornament as a reflection of the true nature of their situation
unconsciously
