The VW Beetle

The VW Beetle, an impossible ideal by a German dictator, who may have been the most vicious demented mass killer ever, made possible. But Hitler never meant to build the automobile, it was a political tactic used to deceive the German working class into supporting him. His ideal & it's deception carried on throughout the Beetle's production, in both Germany & the U.S..



The Beetle was never a family car, as it was never meant to be. Hitler deceived the German working class & Volkswagen deceived the American working class. Hitler with his political campaign & Volkswagen with an advertisement campaign.



spectacle

How to Talk Back to Your Television Set

I found this book the other day & it reminded me of this course.

Here is an excerpt:

"...I fear that we have already reached the point in this country where the media, our greatest check on other accumulations of power, may themselves be beyond the reach of any other instituion: the Congress, the President, or the Federal Communications Commission, not to mention the governors, mayors, state legislators, and ciy councilmen. Congressional hearings are begun and then quietly dropped. Whenever the FCC stirs fitfully as if in wakefulness, the broadcasting industry scurries up the Hill for a congressional bludgeon. And the fact that roughly 60 percent of all campaign expenses go o radio and television time gives but a gilmmer of the power of broadcasting in the lives of Senators and Congressmen..." (p. 62)

You can read the whole thing for free HERE

Sponsored Suicide

In the movie "Hank & Mike" there is an idea for corporate sponsored suicide. The details of the idea are that since a person is going to commit suicide anyways they might as well help out their loved ones by attaching a corporate advertisement banner to themselves to wave in the wind as they plummet off a roof top.

Dreamworlds

P!nk "Sober" Music Video


I fear that whenever I hear Tool's Sober the image of Pink fucking herself will come to mind. Anyways, whose dreamworld does this video represent?

Identizine

an example of media, gender, & identity-- an, I hope, obvious spoof