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who did you say i was again?

urgh! essay

...What makes the ideal of commodity fetishism persist and encourage its growth is mass culture. Elites rule the society through the means of leadership and persuasion and not force and bold power as these might bring about resistance. This control over society is commonly referred to as hegemony. The social elites of the capitalist society, namely the capitalists themselves and industrialists, impose and promote ideals that play towards the capitalist movement. These ideals control the thinking of the society and lower classes and influence them. They are usually nothing more than just ideals brought up by the dominant class and are usually ideals of material expression. So that these ideals stick to the society, they represent a common universal interest to all members to the society. They are also represented as the only valid and rational ones. Thus, the people are controlled because they buy into these ideals and have come to take them for granted. As such, they do not question them.

An example of hegemony is employment. While people can primitively live off the land - hunting, gathering and living only on necessities such as food, shelter and water, this is not the case. People work for quite a number of erstwhile luxuries that have been taken for necessities. The idea of employment is hegemonistic because not only do people fail to question it, they actively seek it out. This plays into the hands of the capitalists, who want a source of willing labour. Therefore, mass culture is the culture of the dominant ideals set by the elites of the society for commercial purposes...

busy busy busy

I'm busy busy super busy. Things are starting to get hectic. And the nights are getting later. Should I slack abit, go about at my own pace, knowing that I will eventually finish everything on time? Or should I chiong and finish, and eventually have free time to do EXTRA work, or finish with a lot of spare time? (but burn myself out eventually)

Health's starting to not feel good. Been coughing and having muscle strains (not cramps, thats feminine) rushing here and there for time, waking up later, stressing about the quality of work.

When you just don't know what is expected of you at the table, and you have no idea what others are bringing to the table, you just don't know what to do right. Like should you reprint that edition that you don't like, or go and touch up that statue of David drawing because you feel slightly insecure.

But why am I thinking so competitively. Why can't I just do art for art's sake and learn it naturally and not train ahead?

For grades.

The world is commodified and competitive. In school it's about grades. That's the underlying death.



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happenings 6.2321

Happenings. In random order.

So I went round all over the PMR saying Hey I need pictures for my blog.

not mine.

hi max.

vivian's. i didn't do this not mine. will try it someday though. if i''m brave enough. we'll see. its nice right?

tri-coloured etching is the shit man.

not a print.

alien life form thing.

gallery sitting is boring.

but good money.

not a print either.

the killer.

One more day till Julie gets back. And Oh no..my IIIA essay is still left hanging. No mood to do. 800words. But I have my History essay all nice and done. We'll see.

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KATHMANDOOOOOOO is just next door

selamat hari raya 09

selamat hari raya

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impossible is nothing

So here I am.

I just finished a 1500 word History of the Visual Arts essay and I'm happy.

And going crazy too.


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YOU LIKE ETCHING EH BOY? OH YES YOU DO.
you know i just realised, with etching, the lines are way smoother than what i could do with a pen.
that and editioning but we'll see

next post got pictures. promise

good

OK. So it reverts back to its normal self. Or maybe it just doesn't work on my laptop.

But I'm lazy to upload pictures now. Because I'm doing my history essay and it is mind-boggling.

And no I don't like to copy and paste. I rephrase every damn shit.

That's my vice what's yours?



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can you say firetruck ?
say Ohhhh truck..

test

Trying out posterous. Let's see how it works.

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See and download the full gallery on posterous

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hmmm

I don't know what's wrong with my blogger. Or is it my internet? I cannot upload pictures and stuff. I can only type. So how to show imba sketches? Just kidding.

Maybe it's because I'm using google chrome? Tried with mozilla, didnt work. Internet explorer too. I'm stuck with this =\

OH and for no apparent reason I have a tumblr. I thought I'd try other blogsites other than blogger. Couldn't understand wordpress, as in the cuztomisations. But oh well. We'll see how it goes.

I have a twitter now lol.


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