The one I will probably be able to get the most excited about and read most about would probably be popular culture as I have, since then, questioned this consumerist culture a lot and why we feel the need to constantly have the new stuff yet with this fall in line with everyone else around us... do we actually want to be like everyone else? or are we fooling ourselves into being individual. Are there deeper meanings into why we chose things, what we listen to or watch?
I think I want to prove Adorno wrong, though, I'm not sure that will be entirely possible.
I'm not one to spend loads of money on stuff but I am a sucker sometimes and have a tendency to feel that I NEED something then a few months later forget why I needed it.
Approved with reservations as this will need a specific example to focus on. However, this could be easily extended into a dissertation length project.(see me to discuss)
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