Tag: ideas

• July 23, 2015

  Through the Looking Glass; the world beyond the window

  This is an essay I did for a culture of cities module taught by the excellent Lorcan Byrne in UCC. It deals with the concepts of worship, consumerism and self.  Commodity fetishism has expanded at pace with technology since Marx identified it in Das Kapital (Marx,1928) and Benjamin extrapolated it in the Arcades Project(Benjamin, 1999).…