Concepts and Theories
• Mass Media
• Propaganda
• Ideology
• Sub-culture
• Hegemony
• Agency
• Cultural reproduction
• Habitus
• Symbolic violence
• Simulation
• Hyper-reality
• Contemporary Culture
• Technological Communication
Critical Discourses:
Noam Chomsky Media Control: The Spectacular Achievement of Propaganda
Theodor W. Adorno The Cultural Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
Louis Althusser Ideology and Ideological state Apparatus (Selection)
Roland Barthes Mythologies (Selection)
Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Michel Foucault Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (The Carceral) (Selection)
Antonio Gramsci “Hegemony, Intellectuals and the State” from Prison Notebooks
Stuart Hall The Work of Representation
Pierre Bourdieu The Field of Cultural Production
The Rules of Art