Class Notes: 2/23/06

1) Announcements:
1.BMFF Friday
2. Visiting Artist Monday:Trent Boyson

2) Discussion of Society of the Spectacle

What is the SOS?
How did it come about?
What is the role of culture in the SOS?
How can culture struggle against the SOS?
What is detournement?

How does Debord's ideas related to Horkheimer & Adornos?
How does this related to ideas of postmodernism?

3) Repossessing Popular Culture
What Kipnis is calling for is precisely what Debord is, although more in the present-day: an extension of the postmodern interest in leveling high-low culture to create a genuinely popular oppositional culture--something that is fun and critical


4) Discussion of RTMark based on student's comments brought into class; in light of detournement

5) Other examples of detournement:
-adbusters
-GI Joe PSAs
-bush remixed videos (Bryan Boyce, State of the Union)

6) In-class exercise/hw: detourning advertisements (white out, pens, markers, magazines)