Free to Choose: Part 1 of 10 The Power of the Market (Featuring Milton Friedman) The Frankfurt School (1 of 2) World History : HyperHistory. Western Philosophy. Theoretical Approaches to Popular Culture. Nsamples. Introduction to Louis Althusser; Module on Ideology. Althusserian Ideology. Glossary Agency : the ability of an individual or group to effect or intervene in human affairs. Liberal humanists regard the individual as having almost unrestricted agency. Marxists see economic and social circumstances as playing a role in the ability of individuals or groups to shape their social destiny. Cultural Studies : promotes resistance through the study of how ideologies manifest themselves within various texts including literature, advertisements and other media, fashion and many other possibilities.
Decoding : how readers interpret or make sense of the messages in texts. Determinism : The view that economic, social and cultural life determines the consciousness of individuals. Diachronic Analysis : analysis of the development of a phenomenon, such as language, and how it changes over time. Empiricism : the conviction that all knowledge is derived from sense experience. Ideology : term first coined by Karl Marx and used also as one of his three levels of society. Marxism Media Theory. Bell hooks Pt 1 cultural criticism and transformation. Bell hooks Pt 2 cultural criticism and transformation. Bell hooks Pt 3 cultural criticism and transformation. Bell hooks Pt 4 cultural criticism and transformation. Bell hooks Pt 5 cultural criticism (madonna) Bell hooks Pt 6 cultural criticism (spike lee) Bell hooks Pt 8 cultural criticism (rap music) Disassembly01.mov.
Terence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system. A Conversation with Terence McKenna and Ram Dass.