Friday, February 15, 2008

Literary Mode of Production

Reading The Critical Tradition edited by Richter their are views in Marxixt about the demands of soceity. Soceity can be related to those annoying iTune upgrades we all detest. The reason being technology has taken over soceity. A teacher once challenged her students to participate in a 48 hour technology fast. The only thing they were allowed to use was a land line phone and a car. The result was horrid and many students failed in the fast. Terry Eagleton had responded that their are different forms of literary. One of the many forms of literary inolves technology; all these forms of literature is known as the Literary Mode of Production (LMP). This mode would not exist without something known as the General Mode of Production (GMP). This GMP is a mode that means the economic production within ones soceity. The economic production within ones soceity are the demands of the people that resources provided in the envrionment. Technology has made a huge impact seeing that people can not live with out it. There are no rules outlining how far technology can go. This frightens me because we as a human race never meant for such a thing to take over us. The fact we can't live with out it to function is scary that our lives depend on this very thing. Instead of this thing evolving to us we evolved to it. Technology takes over literature. Literature are essays, documents, all forms of art, conversations, everything.

3 comments:

Pauline said...

these kids do not speak face to face often but they do communicate more due to the internet, texting, cell phones, etc. Kids now days do not have that personal contact that was once there.

Prof Ron said...

An excellent connection to your critical theory class though you might give the class a bit more background so we understand better the connection you are making.

So, how do you see the idea of GMP relating to Baron? Does the idea of GMP necessarily lead one to fear how far technology will go?

Pauline said...

technology can go as for as you want. There are no rules regulating or protecting people from technology.