Citizenship and Agency Under Neoliberal Global Consumerism Assignment

Assignment Task

Topics and Question

1. The neoliberal consumer

Using examples from visual culture, analyse and discuss the ways in which neoliberalism has shifted our notion of ourselves from political citizens to consumer subjects. How is this ideology reinforced or challenged in media culture?

2. Consumer Compassion

Analyse and discuss the ways in the individual is being positioned as the solution to structural problems, and the extent to which 'ethical' consumption, philanthropy and charity effect change or reinforce the status quo.

3. Cosmopolitanism

Examine the extent to which 'cosmopolitanism' can provide a genuinely ethical response to globalised concerns beyond national borders.

4. Globalisation and Cultural hybridity

Discuss the extent to which transcultural contact and economic convergence have led to a process of cultural hybridisation. How is this represented and/or challenged in media culture?

5. Images of/in migration

Discuss how crisis globalisation and portable filmmaking devices are coming together to construct a new form of cinema. With reference to cinematic examples, examine how these films are challenging dominant discourses on, and representations of, migration.

6. Necropolitics, biopolitics & border

Analyse the ways in which neoliberalism constructs a 'living death' for certain subjects by letting live and making die. How is this 'living death' represented in media culture?

7. The ethics of representation

Discuss the ways documentary cinema and the media in the West represent those outside the West and the difference between making political films and making films politically.

8. Globalised protest & resistance

Analyse the ways in which crises in neoliberalism been. racnandad to hu nratact movements and how now madio 2 000 000 Dashboard Calendar To-do Notifications Inbox

9. Globalised conspiracy & paranoia

Discuss the extent to which late (platform) capitalism is constructing an 'infodemic". Is the 'crisis' of post truth a novel problem or a recurring anxiety? 

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