What to Do In 101 Today - LDH2BM

In 101 today you can work on several different projects.

The main reason we're down here is so that you can add to your big paper. The main thing we've been working on the past week that you can add includes this set of concepts:

1. The "marginal messages of commodified culture" are those messages sold to us by advertisements, movies, tv, music videos, books, magazines, etc that define the good and meaningful life in a way which is unusual. These "marginal messages" expand the range of visions of a good and meaningful life both by offering new visions and also by (to some degree) contradicting the dominant corporate messages on the good and meaningful life.

2. Some examples and sources of marginal corporate messages on the good and meaningful life.

3. Some weaving and analysis of these messages to show their significance - to demonstrate their kinship (or successful divorce) with dominant corporate messages - to claim them as personally powerful in your own understanding or relegate them as insignificant compared to the tsunami of dominant messages - to theorize why the corporations put them out - to consider the argument that corporations manage (with our complicity) to "commodify our dissent".

You can also make up late work - here's what was due as of last week.