Reality Show

My favorite reality show is The Hills. What made me watch it is the drama and seeing how the rich live their lives, there is not a dull moment on the show and I continue to watch it every week because of that reason and because as I watch every episode, I want to see what happens next, who ends up with who. I would love to have the money aspect they have, going out and buying whatever I want. However I would not want the drama in my life, I do fine without it.

Chapter 50 Summary

In this chapter, Representation adn Difference by Stuart Hall, he explained that how society makes sense of what is happening in the world is through differences. Hall goes on to divide these into 4 main catagories and theories on how we differ things:

1. Linguistics- The essential of knowing what difference is is to know the opposite of it, ex: dark and light

2. Language- We know what differences are because we can put them to a dialogue.

3. Anthropological- Cultures giving different items a meaning.

4. Psychoanalytic- The "other" is to our identity as a subject and our sexual identity

Chapter 49 Summary

This chapter, The Society of Spectacle, by Guy Debord, was about illusions and sacredness and that our society is bombarded with a mass amount of images and representation. These have become such a dominate part in our lives that we are forgetting about our own personal experiences.