week 2 tute 10-12

I would say hello but I will just get the narrator to say it in french...

This week the lecture outlined the dropping of an evolutionary bomb that resulted in the development of the commodity known as media. The lecture expressed the development of numerous views, movements, thought patterns that evolved since the early 1900's. As with much theoretical knowledge and the related points of view, that which is expressed is neither deemed correct or incorrect but blended to be presented in an eclectic form...

The lecture expressed this electic form to be that of Political economy. Now after listening to the lecture and reading the lecture notes, I was failing to see the overall grandure of what was being expressed. It was not until reading the text book that I fully understood the implications that the progressive 1900's had and what importance political economy has.

The importance (in my humble opinion) is not merely accomodation or powersharing as stated. It's importance and true power is found within the relationship between the constitutional elements and the resultant effects upon its primary reciepients of its existence, that being the people within society. Media is a commodity, however in the same vain so are people. How we think, act, interact as a society is defined by communication and media. The size and development of communication and media is defined by society, eg, technology fetishism, search for ease and simplicity of tasks. In this view the actual purpose of the theorism of political economy can be found. This is even more true if we truly are under the influence of Hypercapitalism.

With a twist that could rival other films with twists, La Jetee is set post world war 3. Dude goes back in time, meets a chick, forward in time, back in time, gets rejected, spoken to by the future, back in time, and sees himself geting shot... confusing would be a term used to describe my very unflattering description. Actually the film is very clever and effective... but takes a bit of thought to understand the "artiness". My explanation is... damn I'm over the word limit.... don't you hate that.