Cultural festivals:
This….
https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/aboriginal-cultural-festivals#axzz4hsReZiP3
Vs.
This…
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/28/entertainment/fyre-festival-disaster-trnd/
Category: CST120
CST120: The Happiness Industry
What makes you happy? Would you rate yourself as being happy?
Try this:
http://www.oprah.com/spirit/take-the-happiness-test-quiz_1
Denmark has it all figured out!
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/welcome-to-the-happiest-country-on-earth/
Do you think they have the balance right?
Focus questions:
– How has happiness become a business?
– how does happiness intersect with consumption?
– how is unhappiness culturally coded?
– what is affective labour, and why is it important?
Read this:
– what are the main points raised in this article?
– what do you think?
CST120: Work
Work Work Work Work Work Work
– What do you think of, when you think of work? (how does the idea of work shape society?)
- Why is work at the heart of these fictional texts?
- and songs? https://www.theworkplacedepot.co.uk/news/2013/02/27/top-50-workplace-songs/
Focus Questions:
– what is the cultural significance of work?
– how does technology enable work? What changes in work has it enabled?
– why is there not more resistance to work?
-what is the role of gender in relation to work?
– What is the protestant work ethic?
What do you expect/hope for from work?
CST120: Pornography
Focus Questions:
- -how does one define pornography? Why is pornography so hard to define?
- – what is the role of legislation in defining/regulating pornography?
- – how does pornography demonstrate the cultural coding of texts?
- – has modern society become ‘pornified’?
Sexting:
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/nsw/2016/04/07/sexting-laws-in-nsw–criminalising-teens-.html
http://www.lawstuff.org.au/nsw_law/topics/Sexting
Porn in Public?
http://theconversation.com/youre-watching-that-here-the-politics-of-porn-in-public-8394
Protest or Porn or Empowerment? Pornification of Popular Culture
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-11/kim-kardashian-nude-selfies-and-empowerment/7310348
Art or Porn?
Playboy:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/18/playboy-nude-photos-bunny-gender-feminism
Other types of ‘porn’:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-03/young-inspiration-porn/4107006
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/what-food-porn-does-to-the-brain/390849/
Porn: Good for us?
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/28803/title/Porn–Good-for-us-/
CST120: garbage
Moral judgement about garbage?
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/all-too-much-the-people-who-cant-let-go-20130809-2rnca.html
Cult of tidying?
Throwaway fashion?
Focus Questions:
– how is waste part of the moral economy?
– consider the paradox of waste in regards to consumer culture?
– what waste do we feel responsible for?
– how is waste an index of taste?
CST120: Technology
http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/30-best-pop-songs-about-telephone-drama.html#
(Turkle to 5.05)
Moral panic? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201507/moral-panic-who-benefits-public-fear
The Attention Economy:
http://fortune.com/2015/08/12/attention-economy/
https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/jul/06/attention-economy-demise-middle-ground
Extra Reading: Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto
Click to access Haraway-CyborgManifesto-1.pdf
Focus Questions:
-how does technology influence our understanding of time?
– how have mobile phones changed us as humans?
– What is ‘intimate serendipity’?
– what is the attention economy?
CST120: taste
Iron Chef Opening Sequence -data121
– What discourses do you notice depicted in this sequence?
-What do you notice here – what, and who might be missing?
Focus Questions – think about these, referring to one or more of the weekly readings:
What are the similarities in the discourses employed for travel and food writing?
How is ‘taste’ related to class identities?
How is taste conditioned by ideas?
What is ‘ethnic’ food and what makes it culturally desirable?
What is ‘slow food’ (as understood by the foodie), and what makes it desirable?
CST120: Travel
Focus Questions:
– What is the importance of travel? Is it important?
– What is the gaze, and how does it shape our travel encounters?
– How does tourism relate to the notion of departure?
-What is the difference between a traveler and a tourist? What does this say about value judgements?
– According to Boorstin, how has the notion of adventure changed, and how does the ‘pseudo-event’ come about?
– What is the distinction between the authentic and the inauthentic? Is Disneyland a ‘real’ place?
http://www.traveller.com.au/where-to-next-places-to-go-in-2017-grkcb2
Additional reading:
CST120: Reading the beach
Focus Questions:
– what is the significance of the beach to Australian identity?
– what do you understand by the ‘symbolic meaning’ of the beach?
– what does Fiske mean when he says the beach is a text?
– how do we ‘read’ the beach?
– According to Fiske what is the difference between nature, and the natural?
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/australians-beach
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-26/hoskin-australias-love-affair-with-the-jewel-sea/5169356
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/australians-at-play-20151223-glu1g9.html
CST120: Introduction and Australia Day
Need help?
Academic writing: https://www.uow.edu.au/student/services/ld/students/index.html
Technology/ Online help: http://www.uow.edu.au/student/services/digitalliteracy/index.html
Australia Day – some useful links:
http://www.australiaday.org.au/australia-day/about-our-national-day/
https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/australia-day-invasion-day
Renée Middlemost 