Seminar 1 Flashcards
(5 cards)
- What do you think about when you read the phrase: “American Working-Class
Representation”?
Unions, were they are fronted and acknowledged, art and literature represents the working class also.
- How do you imagine the passage of time? As a straight line? As something that
moves too quickly?
I think I imagine the passage of time as something that moves quickly following a straight line.
- Do you think the way western society perceives time has changed? Why or why
not? Find a quotation from each of the theoretical readings to found your claim.
Yes, I think Western society belives time as moving faster and faster.
From 24/7: Why should anyone object, they would counter, if new drugs could allow someone to work at their job 100 hours straight? Would not flexible and reduced sleep time allow more personal freedom, the ability to customize one’s life further in accordance with individual needs and desires? Would not less sleep allow more chance for “living life to the fullest”? But one might object that human beings are meant to sleep at night, that our own bodies are aligned with the daily rotation of our planet, and that seasonal and solar responsive behaviors occur in almost every living organism.
Marx:
Third, time itself has changed, for it now affects everything. The bourgeois must continually “revolutionize the instruments of production”, and thereby the whole economy. There is nothing permanent anymore, and “everything solid melts into air”. The bourgeoisie is both universally destructive and wildly innovative (EPM
- How does time figure into Marx’s theory of the class struggle?
All history has so far been a history of class struggle. Every society in history has been divided between opprssed people and their oppressors, and either socitey itself was reconstituted by a reveolution or both groups were ruined.
- Why does “the future” matter?
Not only can we not know the future, but we cannot know what is happening right now unless we know what has been, because the “now” is a fleeting moment that cannot be captured in words.
