Questions for Material Culture Readings due on February 25, 2010
Industry, Nature, and Identity in an Iron Footbridge
-What structure relating to modern transportation of today could evoke the same feelings as this iron footbridge? Do highways blend in as well with natural surroundings? What do highways say about where we are in our industrial development, and do they encourage a relationship between individual and road?
-Since this is a material culture class, and we are allowed to analyze things according to how they speak to us, my question for this reading goes out to the author. “Dear Mr. Fredric Jameson, Hello. My name is Melanie Verges, and I come from a design background. I am not from the world of traditional academia, and so I would like to suggest something to you. While I implore your success and ability to write in such a scholastic way, I would like to challenge you to write in a way that would invite non-academia people to be more excited about your writings. The challenge would be to write in a more relatable way, like writer Henry Jenkins. I suppose it is less a question for this reading, and more of a invitation. I feel as though young students could be more excited and understand better if you were to use vocabulary and writing styles that spoke to everyone. Most sincerely, Melanie.”
Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars?
How would YouTube influence or change a younger grassroots movement of Star Wars fan spoofs? And I would challenge that Harry Potter, Avatar and Twilight will influence younger and future generations the same way that Star Wars did; but I also have to wonder if its influence will remain as strong with the invention of more futuristic movies and ideas?
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