the other victorians
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The other victorians. Fall 2013 / Georgetown University Professor N. Hensley / [email protected] Office hours: T 2-3:30, W 11-12, and by appt. Office: 316 New North. What is “Victorian”. 1837-1901 Mode of life? Style of dress? Set of manners? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
THE OTHER VICTORIANS
Fall 2013 / Georgetown University
Professor N. Hensley / [email protected]
Office hours: T 2-3:30, W 11-12, and by appt.
Office: 316 New North
WHAT IS “VICTORIAN”
1837-1901
Mode of life?
Style of dress?
Set of manners?
A globalized, mass-marketized, capitalist culture of information. (Sound familiar?)
?
WHAT IS “GLOBALIZATION”?
THE ANALYTICAL TRAP
CONTAINMENT
Culture produces sameness
Culture polices: it is…
Reiteratitve
Repetitive
An instrument of constraint
“Ideological” / “Bad”
SUBVERSION
[Certain] culture rebels
Culture disrupts; it is…
Insurgent
Liberatory
An instrument of freedom
“Heroically transcendent!” / “Good”