Intro lecture

2. Fixing Dominant Ideologies
• Media and Sports: Reifying ideologies
• Master Narratives: good vs. evil
• Male Domination--female sublimation

3. The Hero in Battle

4. The Spectator and the Action
• Passive --manipulative--lacking
• “Classical” masculine spectatorship
• Linear, goal-oriented, fetishistic
• The brother on the sidelines
• Mind over Matter

5. Mind Over Matter: Male Suffering and the
Body

6. The Needs of the Post-Industrial
Workforce
• Distractions--or what is multitasking?
• Commentator as speculator--the Greek chorus?
ESPN, online
• What are the tensions created by a capitalist
system?
• Personal struggle vs. the common ideologies

7. Close-up: the World

8. Collective Intelligence
• Overcoming “groupthink” and individual
“cognitive bias”
• ”The capacity of a human community to
evolve toward higher order complexity
thought, problem-solving and integration
through collaboration and innovation.”
(George Pór, Blog of Collective Intelligence)

9. Binary Thinking and America

10. Tensions: Race, Class, and Gender
• Masking of contradictions through distraction
• Presentation of a false order
• Diversion and reification
• NO acknowledgement of disintegration

11. Presumption of Order

12. Into the Light