I revisited some of the lectures that received during semester 1 in order to remember valuable information before tackling the essay. My first stop was to explore the Cultural Hierarchies lecture in which we explored the meaning of hierarchy and culture as well as a brief overview of the culture capital and the role of authority, class and aesthetics in it's definition. Among other issues.
I was very interested in the relationship between class and culture. One of the reasons being the fact that I grew up in a communist country which employs a different dynamic altogether. Allow me to elaborate: The social hierarchies for example are rather complex since the military powers and the civilian powers are one. This means that the police is military, the artists are workers with a 9 to 5 job and belong to a system of guilds that dictates the course of their practice rather than enjoying creative freedom, a tool for the "Revolutionary" process as they call it. There is a political class that decides what culture is and the subject matter explored by filmmakers musicians and other culture creators. There fore the censorship is ensuring that the cultural texts produced by the aforementioned guilds or institutions follow the Revolutionary canon, silencing everything else.
I was very interested in the relationship between class and culture. One of the reasons being the fact that I grew up in a communist country which employs a different dynamic altogether. Allow me to elaborate: The social hierarchies for example are rather complex since the military powers and the civilian powers are one. This means that the police is military, the artists are workers with a 9 to 5 job and belong to a system of guilds that dictates the course of their practice rather than enjoying creative freedom, a tool for the "Revolutionary" process as they call it. There is a political class that decides what culture is and the subject matter explored by filmmakers musicians and other culture creators. There fore the censorship is ensuring that the cultural texts produced by the aforementioned guilds or institutions follow the Revolutionary canon, silencing everything else.