YOU CAN DO IT :) HE'S WITH YOU Flashcards
DIFFERENT CITIES embodied things
- _________-shot heard round the world
- _________-entertainment
- AMERICAN ASPIRATION:entertainment
Boston
Las Vegas
DIFFERENT CITIES embodied things
- BOSTON- shot heard round the world
- LAS VEGAS- entertainment
- AMERICAN ASPIRATION :______________
Entertainment.
____________-ENTERTAINMENT
- religion
- politics (commercial)
- Super Bowl (athletics)
American Aspiration
_______ have embodied things
- BOSTON-shot heard round the world
- LAS VEGAS-entertainment
- AMERICAN ASPIRATION:entertainment
Different cities
______________-former Hollywood star
President Reagan
What advice did Nixon give if you want to become president?
Look good
_________- advice: look good if you want to become president
Nixon
President Reagan -former Hollywood star
- Nixon gave advice-look good if you want to become president.
- element of looking good
- can’t be an unattractive _________.
______makes the same argument
Newscaster
Plato
President Reagan -former Hollywood star
-Nixon gave advice-look good if you want to become president.
-element of looking good
-can’t be an unattractive NEWSCASTER
PLATO makes the same argument
-any PUBLIC DISCUSSION has regulations of WHAT CAN COME FROM IT.
_________________
-ex: can’t make philosophical arguments with SMOKE SIGNALS
Form
Follows
Function
President Reagan -former Hollywood star -Nixon gave advice-look good if you want to become president. -element of looking good -can't be an unattractive NEWSCASTER PLATO makes the same argument -any PUBLIC DISCUSSION has regulations of WHAT CAN COME FROM IT. FORM FOLLLOWWSSSSSSS FORM -ex: can't make \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_with \_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
Philosophical arguments
Smoke signals
______ is the BIG media in America
-can only do so much
TV
Tv is the ______ in America
Big media
TAFT wouldn’t be elected now. -unattractive
-for on tv, ______ is conducted largely through __________, which is yo say…. P7.
Discourse
Visual imagery
We make NEWS exist. We make it an “_____”.
Event
We make news exist. We make it an EVENT
-figment of ________________
Technological
Imagination
We make NEWS exist. We make it an event.
-_____ of technological imaginations
Figment
Amusing Ourselves To Death
-Neil Postman
Pg 8…..”to say it then, as plainly as I can, this book is an inquiry into and a lamentation about the most significant American cultural fact of the 2nd 1/2 of the twentieth century….
What was his main point
The decline of the Age of Typography
And the ascendancy of the Television
What is the best way to see culture?
See the tools of conversation
A tool ______ and is _____ by a culture.
Shapes
Shaped
A _____ shapes and is shaped by a CULTURE.
Tool
____ wrote 1984 in 1948.
-Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Orwell
-died the same day as JFK on November 22
“The medium is the message”-_________
-the medium is the metaphor gets its title from this
McLuhan
_____ follows function
- garden, your clothes follow
- if screwing a screw into board a hammer will not work
From
FORM follows _______
- garden, your clothes follow
- if screwing a screw into board a hammer will not work
Function