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CMNS 223 - Week 3

CMNS 223 - Week 3

Consequences of commodification (Abstraction, Equivalence, Reification) and the Commodity Sign.

Alberto Lusoli

May 15, 2019
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  1. ▪ Abstraction: From quality to quantity. Necessary to measure commodities’

    exchange value ▪ Equivalence: The quantitative value of thing, measured through money, becomes dominant. ▪ Reification: Transform human properties and social relations into objects.
  2. Create “structures of meanings” to promote the preferred interpretation of

    an ad. Technically: Positioning concept, mortise, caption.
  3. Split into group of three. Find an example of bad

    advertising. One which failed to address YOU (like the GAP ad show in class).
  4. The reading mentions the 70s punk as an example of

    movement that withdrew, intentionally, from the process of signification. Can you think ok any contemporary or recent example of similar resistance?