250086 Media and Culture (S) (SoSe 2013)

"We inhabit a world where the free exchange of ideas is changing culture globally like never before. Ideologies have always understood that the real fight is for the inner landscape, not the outer. Because controlling what people think is more difficult and ultimately more important than controlling the physical territory. Ideas guide actions, and culture consists of ideas writ large upon the world. Distrust and Ideology that distrusts education, rationality, individual creative expression and free enquiry. They Don't want you to have ideas above yourself" (Hughes, Rian)

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind" (Jim Morrison)

"[...] the origins, liveliness, and durability of cultures require that there be space for figures whose function is to uncover and disrupt the very things that cultures based on. I hope to give some sense of how this can be, how social life can depend on treating antisocial characters as part of the sacred" (Hyde, Lewis)

"Helfen Sie Ihrem Fernseher auf die Quantensprünge" (U-Media, 12/2012)

Bibliography

- Hughes, Rian (2010), Cult-ure: Ideas can be dangerous, Fiell Publishing, London
- Hyde, Lewis (2008), Trickster makes this world: How disruptive imagination creates culture, Cannongate, Edinburgh, London, New York, Melbourne