1. Be ready to discuss Zengotita's "Numbing of the American Mind. " Answer reading comp. questions below (click "read more").
In class:
review difference btwn Primary text and Secondary Sources, "lol how r u" example
discuss Johnson and how he fits with Carr / Sullivan
begin Zengotita Reading
analyze your source
QUESTIONS FOR "NUMBING OF THE AMERICAN MIND"
What does Zengotita mean when he writes "numb is to the soul as thin is to the mediated world"?
What does Zengotita mean when he writes "what needs explaining is our equanimity in the face of such staggering developments"?
According to Z. why did we move on after 9/11?
Why does Z. list all these various "gradations" of the real? What is his main point in doing so?
What is the "real limit" Z claims we are colliding with?
What is the "dialectic of postmodern life" according to Zengotita?
*Baudelaire was an early 1900s French Poet*
What does Z. mean when he claims "accidental places are the only real places left"?
What's the difference btwn wolves and "wolves"?
How would Z answer his own question: "Do you parse out the real from the fabricated in that melange? No can you, but do you?"
What are "content providers"?
in the "age of the mix," then how would Z. view music like mash-ups of dubstep?
What does "intensity of presentation" take the place of?
What is the effect of the "any number of meanings" quality? Does this part remind you of anything we've already read?
How do we respond to "the numbness of busyness"? What has the feeling of being busy come to equal?
What are "stress dramas" actually about according to Z?
What's the "one real reality"? Who teaches us how to do it?
What is the "one thing people in a tv series know"?
In response to 9/11, what allowed us / caused us to "get past the thing itself"? What was 9/11 "transformed into"?
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