Exam Project Theory

Quote Analysis

Looking into the 3 quotes I have picked out to do research on, I have found out which books they have come from and how I can build some ideas using the history of their context.

"The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism."

Jean Baudrillard
Cool memories, Volume 1
Subjects:
America
Literary Criticism / European / French
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Political Science / General
Social Science / Sociology / General

About This Book:

Jean Baudrillard is widely recognized as one of the most important and provocative writers of our age. Variously termed “France’s leading philosopher of postmodernism” and “a sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left,” he might also be called our leading philosopher of seduction or of mass culture. Following his acclaimed America and Cool Memories, this book is the first in a series of personal records in hyper reality. Idiosyncratic, outrageous, and brilliantly original, Baudrillard here casts his net widely and combines autobiographical memories with further reflections on America, the crisis of cultural production, new ideas in fiction/theory, and the “verbal fornication” of the postmodern.

Possible Ideas

Showing a futuristic city in which the community cannot escape, making every exit a mirror which leads back to the same place.

Showing all the major cities in the world today, being the same in all senses and showing how they circulate with one another, making them so attractive to draw everyone in.

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"The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village."

Marshall McLuhan Understanding media: the extensions of man Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Mass media Political Science / General Social Science / General Social Science / Media Studies Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects

About This Book:

In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and practical fact, the medium is the message. When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century. This edition of McLuhan's best-known book both enhances its accessibility to a general audience and provides the full critical apparatus necessary for scholars. In Terrence Gordon's own words, "McLuhan is in full flight already in the introduction, challenging us to plunge with him into what he calls 'the creative process of knowing.'" Much to the chagrin of his contemporary critics McLuhan's preference was for a prose style that explored rather than explained.

Global Village is A term closely associated with Marshall McLuhan, popularized in his books The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) and Understanding Media (1964). McLuhan describes how the globe has been contracted into a village by electric technology and the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time. In bringing all social and political functions together in a sudden implosion, electric speed has heightened human awareness of responsibility to an intense degree.

Possible Ideas

All the new electronic things in our world form a single village which all exist in, re-creating the globe to showing the last thing standing on earth.

Everything in the world becomes electronically new, turning the world into something that looks more industrial and polluted than green with blue oceans.

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"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."

Joseph Addison The Spectator Magazine, Volume 2 Subjects: Business & Economics / Insurance / General Fiction / Action & Adventure History / Europe / Great Britain Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Social Science / Penology

About This Magazine:

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by the Barclay brothers, who also own The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture.

Possible Ideas

Using your imagination to form an uncommon world, which shows what our world would be like if things were done in a different way.

Going from past to present, showing all the things that raised surprise in the world, which have made it what it is today.