Hi everyone, from the departure of Gabriel which came as a bit of a surprise, I think it would be good to make sure everyone is in full consensus with the topic at hand.
If not please raise any issues here, so all group members can help tackle the situation.
The Title we chose from the class on Thursday was Presentation title suggestion 7:
If not please raise any issues here, so all group members can help tackle the situation.
The Title we chose from the class on Thursday was Presentation title suggestion 7:
It is better to be controlled by someone else rather than by oneself
From my understanding of this statement I think it’s important that we focus on Jean Baudrillard’s thought on the topic of control over the self. I think within our presentation if we actually focus on a set of key points, and elaborate on them. So the key points I believe are quite relevant are the following:
- The ways in which an individual is controlled - By this I’m referring to media, government, and other social institutes such as uni।
- Connected to Budrillard’s thought, from the awareness of those that control you, why it is important to accept them – For example accepting the limits of our own power and not being disillusioned by our own ego!
- Why taking this approach is not a demeaning thing and allowing the notion that giving into someone else with authority, is not giving up responsibility as that action of giving in is your responsibility!!!! If you get what I mean LOL
These are just some suggestions and in no way what we have to do but the stance I would personally take on assessing this statement, I was also thinking of may be from this point of view someone could take a more liberal point of view in which we could then debate it out for the presentation. I think this would be good as the debate will include both our own views and also course content.
So I’m going to stop rambling now, but just my initial ideas for what we could talk about, let me know what you guys think.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/baudrillard/#5
I have included a link to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, it sreally good and gives a very good background on Baudrillard, if you go to about the 9th paragrath on the link the text is very relevant to our presentation topic, ummm so try give it a read it is an academic source too so we are safe in knowing that it is ligit!!
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I agree, was Taran's thoughts of including a debate within our presentation because the title 'It is better to be contolled by someone else rather than by oneself' is a comparing and contrasting statement- So i strongly believe that a debate arguing the two points of view- would provide a strong conclusion. We could also incorporate the question, Are we feeling more controlled by society now, or are we experiencing more freedom? just a thought we could try and highlight.
Lucy
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