英华人文系列讲座第129讲
文化工业与知识经济
主讲人：Janell Watson教授
主持人：王欣教授
时间：2019年6月6日（周四）13：30-15：00
地点：虹口校区会议中心凯旋厅
主办单位：英语学院
内容简介：In their seminal 1944 essay on the Culture Industry, Adorno and Horkheimer argued that standardized mass entertainment, especially cinema and radio, transforms the consciousness of the masses by mimicking the rhythms of factory production, further integrating workers into the capitalist system. Today, the tools of knowledge work also deliver news and entertainment. The smartphone in my pocket is a mobile office, a miniature movie house, a radio, and an encyclopedia. What has changed since mass media evolved into interactive media, given that a few wealthy capitalists still control the forms while monetizing the content? I will argue that the smartphone externalizes human consciousness by plugging affect and perception to a small machine.
主讲人简介：Janell Watson is professor at Virginia Tech University. Her major publications include: books, Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust and Guattari’s Diagrammatic Thought. She is Editor of the minnesota review: a journal of creative and critical writing.
