Ideology
The Pervert’s guide to Ideology - Notes
Trashcan = Ideology
John, homeless worker, finds strange box sunglasses, when he puts them on the glasses gives a view of critic on ideology. It saws you the real messages, under need it.
We live in post ego logic society
Subject of pleasures, live a satisfying life
Ideology is a spontaneity relationship to or social world, so we can enjoy it. To step out of it, you have to force it to do it.
The critic you have to see very time, not only with glasses.
We do see the critic or proof, we are against that, we don’t want to wear the glasses.
Freedom hurts
Enjoyment and pleasures
Beauty and pleasures,
A non, with too much energy, too much sex energy, falls in love, can control it, desire..
The song gives, permission, the true hidden message
Guilty to not have pleasure, not enjoying enough,
commodity is not just an object
Is an ideological and metaphysical, it presents always reflect an invisible transients, its it
Coco cola
Mysteries something more, enjoinment, the more you drink it the more thirsty you get
Desire for a southern thing, desire for desire it self
A desire to continue desire
Surprise egg, the desire is materialist it is the plastic toy inside
Beethoven is a communist-song, big events, is ideology
The melody was uses in political way
In all over the world
At specialty at ‘left’ parties
Also with sport, at the Olympics
They all embracing,
Sometimes you are so moved, that feeling, you never know what,
Clockwork orange
Alex, the hero, why is he so overwhelmed, by the singing women
Beethoven becomes a carnival tune in the movie
Now Beethoven is the truth, failure of the official ideology
Beethoven was already a critic at ideology, that’s way it was so difficult
West side story
How do you know all of this, and still do it?
men is not a product of objective circumstances
of we subjective objective circumstances
of we react to them we constructing or own universe
reactions of people of dominate ideology, they don’t know how to react (protest)
all the violence acting out is something that you can’t put in words
Taxi driver
Violence to radical suicide
The fragile sociology
Travis in taxi driver
Travis is annoyed by the prostitute, he has fantasies
Fantasies are the ideology stuff
It’s a lie
Fantasy covers up
It’s a desire
Western : The searchers
In both films the hero treys to safe a women
The women, the victim, the violence wakes them because the victim refuse the help,
You try to help them, what if they don’t want your help, the outcomes is violence
It’s a reaction, to confusion
All the violence was suicidal
JAWS
jaw attacks people on beach
the shark is a metaphor for Americans,
We fair
The shark, is one symbolic for one fair, all fairs
The dream is to have a cake and eat it
Evolution
hierarch society
Society is modern and hierarchy, no classes
Results of society
Ideology as filter, frame
When you look at that frame, everything changes
The frame at nothing, but opens it
Jews
Racism, Try to imagine to see the other in enjoyment
Cabaret song Rammstein - Nazi in pre ideological state, elements
Starbucks coffee
You buy ideology
The posters with the messages, the money goes to something blabla
You’re not just a consumer at Starbucks, but a part of the commodity
Extending the horizon of ideology
Capitalism, has to circulate, to reproduce itself, to expend, to multiple itself, so everything can be sacrifice
Beauty is on the side of capitalism
Capitalism is always in crisis, and can’t be indestructible
always creating new products, but we forget the waste
accept the waste, to break out of it
we experience history- Walter Benjamin
I’m legend
Mute presents,
Ike the planes dessert
Titanic
When they approach the wrack, metaphysical experience, a forbidden place
The classes, in the boot,
The story, the couple, is a supreme Hollywood ideological, has an obstacle
Ideology of true love
The different classes having contact
Safe the illusion of internal love
The fall of berlin
He couple holds the whole movie together, and some part hold or intention, this is how ideology works.
Full metal jacket
Obeying the rules
We become machines
Basic forms, ironic distance, like ‘MASH’ tv serie
Military Disciplines: marching, mixer of nonsense
You need to have unwritten rules, not only explicit rules
Never public recognized but crucial to the identification of a society group
Over identify, is, to close, you will end up killing yourself, like in full metal jacket
The dark knight - The joker
Lie functions
You need a lie to maintain order, to get trust in de public
Power needs authority
‘If there is no god, than everything is permitted’
When there is a god then it’s all permitted
THE BIG OTHER
History is the big other,
Ever existing people, but point of reference
Basic element
Secret order of things, faith, controlling or destiny
Order of appearances
A figure for stability
In order to exist as individual, we need a function of a big other, truth of ourselves, an agency in which to confess
There may be a real other, but there is no big other, where are alone
State bureaucracy the only remain contact with the dimension of the divine
Impenetrable bureaucracy divine and enjoyment
(Christ piece)
Hysteria is the way we questing our social identity
Address to the authority that address our identity
What’s is to divine desire
No point of reference which guarantees meaning
Film
Change his face, and as person, (rebirth) he gets a new live a different live, the other person die
He missed old life
He followed his dream,
He can’t go back, he will be used as a new cadaver to create a new person
We are responsible for our dreams, we create them, they stage our desires
Change your dreams, to change reality
how come we can imagine the end of earth, but not a modern change
will the future arrives?
BBC // The men who make us spend - Episode 1
Why do we buy?
Right and wrong dreams? (Zizek)
What drives people, to wait in front of the store?
The hysteria for the new
The waste are new devices, not even opened yet
The economy is people spending and consuming
The live spent of a product, make a product that’s break and would less forever
The lighting bolls started this idea in the year ’20
The life of a lighting boll will be controlled, the life spend
To double the business within 5 years
After the war, it ended
There is a card Reacher, of a printer, and counts the prints, he is counting down your prints
So this happened in everyday live, more products have a life spend
So people have a duty to consume
Consumers have choice, But also have no choice
What if there was a product that never breaks down
What about the workers then?
What happens to the economy
How to get people buying when you have that product already
Reprogram the consumer
Continues upgrade the products
Selling philosophy
It’s get fashionable, the will get you in your head
Change and redoing or house was a hype, in the 60s
But in the 70’s there was an economic fall
The prices were getting higher
There were angry consumers,
there were a lot of protest
Fisher was a chicken farmer, and he what some change
Hayek inspirited Fisher and he set up the Think Thank
Market forces, create a free market, create a market what consumers want
Economic freedom, and consumerism
Free to spend
Free means brainwash the consumers
We are zombies, following,
Consumerism is going to lift of
Now you have consumer credit, a card, a digital device
Transform choice
Computer design creates that there are more choices
You have more versions, and choices
Consumers what the new model, the new designs
Swatch started with the idea of a watch what is normal for a life time, to create it as a fashion, is branding and a market changing
Design revolution in the 80’s
Product being discarded with no shame
Following up Ikea
There are responsible of the disposable way of living, and the way people engaged with products
Ikea change the look, that people have with a product
Throw away goods, less sustainability
Black Friday
Consumers technology, the mobile phone
Steve Jobs, Iphone
The upgrade, the new phone
Little newer, little better, little sooner
The ipod, the battery doesn’t less longer than 8 months
Iphone 4 replace the screws so people can’t open it, and replace the battery
They say there products less longer than other products
Never ending improvement
To need to upgrade, because they will expend
Like the light boll
We consumer choice to be part of the project
We mobilize our desire, like Apple
Consumers think more about recycling, like bringing our own bags to supermarkets. Desire to be good. Capitalism desire
Reference
Documentary – Bag it
BBC // The men who make us spend - Episode 2
Spend YOUR money, every company what’s you to SPEND
They used every tactic for marketing
Doctor is going to use Dracula-hypnotist
Taking blood from the presenter
Injecting Botox in the his face
People how do this, want to be young, and they have fair for getting old
He gives them ‘a new life’
The doctor gives you that fair, and he has the ‘solution’, he gets in to your head
A lot of commercials gets in your head, to bring out your fair, but how do they do it?
He gets a head-exam, to see what happened when he sees the ‘fair’ commercials
The fair of losing something, is a trigger in your head
Brain response to fair, but that doesn’t means that you are going to ‘buy’
Emotional responses to a product, you will get success
Survival is an instinct, so you don’t what to be afraid, sell us protection
Advertising is happiness, so no fair
You create acidy, advertising is like a story, you have a problem/enemy, and a hero how’s going to safe you
Psychology and human motivation is a big part in advertising
An add gives you an idea that you have it, (like a bad breath , Listerine) so you have to used it to provided. The add gives you fair, and the solution is the product
The add gives you something to disturb, but you didn’t know you need it
People are afraid to be less than normal
Like the drugs industry, people what a quick relieve
Cholesterol is something where people are worrying about
They even taking drugs, but they even got a high cholesterol or hart problems
But the adds makes us fair for high cholesterol, and we think we have it
All does commercials about cholesterol , makes people afraid
Know your number, get so low as you can
All the commercials are financed by the drug product
Desire to be well
Always on an risk, for our own health
Like anti-bacterial products, are they needed? The add thinks so
Germs are everywhere, to the anti-bacterial products make use of that for their adds
The adds target or own instinct, people what to be clean, the fair of getting ill
The same happens with food, next to your diet, the adds tells you to eat good
Like 50 cent with his water, Vitamin water, health is the center of the product
But the water has too much sugar to call healthy
Coca cola took over the Vitamin water, and healthy is the important thing of the drink, they assume certain things like, prevent cancer, but not true, so they got sued
The health clams where removed on the vitamin water website
It’s a sugar water, but people think it’s healthy, and the fair is gone for illness
50+ peoples are an target for the adds, because there are a unsecure group
Like the brain game from Nintendo, the say your brain improved with the game, get your brain active, Mental gymnastics
A lot of other companies took the same approach, your brain
Get younger, by the products, anti-aging industry
The fair of death
Not one of the products has prof that it works, but almost every products is made by doctors
An company claims that taking hormones injections keeps you young –NOT
FAIR is in the very heart why we buy
Reference:
Documentary – Viagraman