Thursday, 26 January 2012

Lecture eight; Jean Baudrillard and postermodernism.

- Simularcra uses the same ideas that are seen within the film the matrix. The idea of reality and what is actually fantasy.
- Labour is the interaction between man and nature - the relationship. 
- Under capitalism a workers job becomes a commodity. 
- The value of goods is not set by what is but by its exchange value. 
- Commodities are all weighed against each other so we know how much money we are exchanging them for. 
- When mass production became industrialised there was an issue with how people would be encouraged to buy these commodities. Due to this there was the birth of advertising as a way of showing people what was being produced. 
- Adverts are saying 'buy more things and your life will be complete'.
- The language of advertising always puts across the idea of fullfillment. 
- Advertising was coded to shape the campaigns so they were reaching the correct audience. 
- Focus groups were used so that advertising campaigns directly fitted with the feedback that companies got.
- The world of product was set to fit with the world of need. 
- Under Baudrillards analysis things needed to be consistent to get people to be wanting to buy the same things again. 
- Linguistic signs were made up of two parts, the concept and the sound made when the word(s) are spoken. 
- Eventually experiences become saturated by media imagery. This is where the idea of false reality comes from. 
- Society becomes a 'simulation'. 
- Social events are shaped by media culture. 

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