Theme 2: Post-reflections

This week I have been on one lecture and one seminar, and I have also read a part from the book “Dialectic of Enlightenment” and answered the questions.

History is an interesting subject, and this week we got the chance to read a historical text that has links to topics that are relevant to our present day.

The discussion Adorno and Horkheimer expresses in ”Dialect of Enlightenment” is similar to the discussion we frequently have in school and with our friends, but for us, the new media which are criticized are the social media. It is easy to trivialize and laugh at people's fear of the new developments, but as I said we have the same fears and thoughts about today's "new media".

The discussion about media and how it control people is also a discussion that is relevant for today. I think of advertising and how we become a victim of it without being aware of it. For example; ads on Facebook. Products that will suit your interests are presented on your news feed, and it is based on the websites you have visited or the pages you have “liked”.

Media and commercials have become such a big part of our lives that we barely not reflects over it, therefore it is interesting to read older texts like “Dialectic of Enlightenment” where media still was upcoming and a relatively new phenomenon.

I think the part in the text that is dealing whit “the myth”, and the view of it, was an interesting part. Just like in last week's seminartext the authors questioned what is true, and who says that something is more real than something else. Questioning technology and science doesn’t happen in our engineering circuits, and therefor I think it is an important issue to reflect on.

It was fun to discuss these questions whit my classmates on yesterday’s seminar and it was interesting to hear other people’s opinion about the text and the subject.