Critical Frameworks for Contemporary Culture

“Ideology saturates everyday discourse in the form of common sense”. If you think about this quote by Hebdige, it truly makes a lot of sens...

One of the most interesting quotes from Jean Baudrillard is the following: “the media are part of the event, they are part of the terror” (...

Habermas is very interesting because he talks about how we define our culture today. He believes that modernity isn’t complete yet and that...

“It is this rupture which must be studied” (23). Here Macherey is talking about the gap in the text. The rupture is the idea of a gap in t...

Hobby Tuesday, December 2nd class Our discussion from Tuesday sparked my interest and really had me thinking for the rest of the week and w...

One of the concepts we talked about with Jameson was the notion of nostalgia, and how it is created as a longing for the past and a response...

As I was reading Foucault's, Discipline and Punish for my final paper, I made a connection that I wanted to share. In the beginning of h...