What are the details of our daily existence? What systems dominate our lives? What meanings can we make of our situation?

This social studies/humanities course will steal from various disciplines - including anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, economics, futurology, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology - to help us make sense of our situation.

A major goal of the course will be to focus your attention on your own life. Together we will investigate major systems that create and rule our lives including capitalism, school, family, popular culture, and the US government. And we will figure out how to interpret our lives, and these systems, and the collision of our lives and these systems.

We will detour into the future and the past but our journey will be primarily contemporary.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

HW 12 - Feed A

Feed A:
Using Feed as the springboard please compare and contrast aspects of the novel and aspects of your current lifestyle as digital teens today. Draw on class discussion but don't just rehash stuff from class - take the best of what was said and then go deeper with that using your mind and heart to think with (and your fingers to type).

Some questions to get you started (don't answer all these, just use them to start thinking) -
(suggested length - 3 paragraphs):
1. If Feed is supposed to be an allegory or a parable of modern teenage life - is it on target?
2. Feed is written as a tragedy - what are the various tragic elements in the book, and how do they all collide, and is that how your life is too?
3. Does Feed miss the point? Are Titus and crew actually living brag lives and the Professors of the World are just behind the times and irrelevant and scared of something new?

Should be posted by Monday, Oct 19 at 8:50am.
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