1. Brave New World Lesson 6
With chapter 4 the story slowly moves on: more action and less description.
Two parts: 1) the scene in the lift between Lenina and Bernard about going to the Savage Reservation; 2) Bernard meets Helmholtz Watson.

2. Brave New World Lesson 6
Bernard is in love with Lenina: or does he only want to have sex with her? Is love possible in such a world? Or to put it in different terms, is falling in love something natural or something social and cultural, somehow typical of the modern western world?

3. Brave New World Lesson 6
Two views of London from the sky: why from the sky? Detachment and privilege. BNW: city and technology. There’s no smoke, no noise, no chaos, lots of green. An environmental friendly city.

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A fordian society in which people are still necessary. Are they still necessary to-day?

5. RESTRUCTURING OF CAPITALISM IN THE 1980s
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The network society
Manuel Castell
IT REVOLUTION
RESTRUCTURING OF CAPITALISM IN THE 1980s
THE SIXTIES EVOLUTION: FEMINISM AND ECOLOGISM

6. The main features and processes of the Network Society:
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The main features and processes of the Network Society:
An informational economy
A global economy
The network enterprise
The flexi-workers
The culture of real virtuality

7. TODAY FLEXIBILITY AND FREEDOM. THE DOUBLE FACE OF FREEDOM
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H. IMAGINES A WORLD BASED ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE MODEL. THERE DISCIPLINE AND MONOTONY.
TODAY FLEXIBILITY AND FREEDOM.
THE DOUBLE FACE OF FREEDOM

8. CAN THOUGHT BE SEPARATED FROM CRITICISM?
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WITH ALFA CHARACTERS WE HAVE PERSONALITY: DISTINCTIVE FEATURES AND IDEAS.
CAN THOUGHT BE SEPARATED FROM CRITICISM?

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Helmholtz and Bernard: B. doesn’t really understand H. but somehow feels they are fighting the same battle. They look like adolescents. They are individuals: but what does it mean? Isn’t Lenina an individual?

10. NOT EVERYTHING WORKS IN BNW
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SPONTANEOUS CONSENSUS, EGEMONY, BUT STILL THERE’S A FEAR OF A REPRESSIVE STATE APPARATUS.
NOT EVERYTHING WORKS IN BNW

11. Brave New World Lesson 7
Chapter 5 divided in 2 parts : Disco and religious ceremony as though 2 equal means of entertainment

12. Brave New World Lesson 7
TRAVEL LITERATURE: DESCRIPTION VERSUS PLOT. DESCRIPTION MOVES IN SPACE AS MUCH AS PLOT MOVES IN TIME

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The golf course shuts at eight o’clock - Monorail trains leave every two and a half minutes - The disco closes - Bernard is late - Lenina remembers her contraceptive;

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Are we all disciplined? Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: the importance of discipline in our life.

15. 3 Different stages: Torture Punishment Prison
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3 Different stages: Torture Punishment Prison

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Foucault argues that the prison is one part of a vast network, including schools, military institutions, hospitals, and factories, which build a panoptic (including everything visible in one view only) society for its members

17. Brave New World Lesson 7
DEATH OR BETTER AFTER DEATH. BUT NOT IN THE SENSE OF THE NEXT WORLD. WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR CORPES?

18. Brave New World Lesson 7
Three points: - Once again view from above: the Crematorium. - Once again ecological: nothing is wasted – though one can argue that nothing is wasted anyway. - Death has lost any kind of sacrality: it’s simply the last event of life, of one’s individual life.

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In BNW we’re born different but once dead we’re all equal: difference applies only to actual life. Lenina’s comment (63)

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Lenina remembers waking up and being conditioned: another sign that not everything works 100%. Henry’s comments: are they plausible? Can he be so consciously aware of the social structure he was conditioned to live in? Wouldn’t such a consciousness be a possible source of disorder?

21. Brave New World Lesson 7
The disco (more like jazz): sex and drugs and rock & roll? Ian Dury and the Blockheads The triumph of an edulcorated reality

22. Brave New World Lesson 7
Second part: from disco to religion. A parody of Christianity that only a writer from a protestant country like Britain could produce.

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A reenactment of the Last Supper: 12 people like the 12 Apostles and a President like a priest/Jesus

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Karl Marx: religion is the opium of the people. Well, here is literally true in that the ceremony consists in distributing soma and reaching a collective ecstasy that ends up in an orgy.

25. CONVENTIONAL/ UNCONVENTIONAL LENINA AND BERNARD
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CONVENTIONAL/ UNCONVENTIONAL LENINA AND BERNARD

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a gramme in time saves nine one cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments a gramme is always better than a damn

27. Brave New World Lesson 8
Bernard here is the executioner and the victim at the same time. Somehow Lenina appears to be only a product of his own mind. She repeats what he wrote: in a sense he is annoyed with himself.

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What would Bernard like? An indipendent Lenina or a Lenina in tune with his present self?

29. Brave New World Lesson 8
A very traditional relationship. At first we might sympathize with Bernard and judge Lenina superficial: if we stick to the text, that’s probably what H. wanted us to understand. Seen from our own point of view, though, in many ways this is a sexist position: man is the one with brain, woman is an inferior being, not much more than a sexual object.

30. Brave New World Lesson 8
THE MALE POSITION: EGO – ORIGINALITY: THE ANXIETY OF DIFFERENCE, OF UNIQUENESS

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2 QUESTIONS: 1) CAN LENINA BE HERSELF? 2) WHAT THIS “MYSELF” CONSISTS OF?

32. Brave New World Lesson 8
2 ANSWERS: 1)to be yourself is a privilege not granted to everybody. It requires time and money; 2)it’s not clear what “myself” means.

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FIRST GOFFMAN, THEN GENDER CRITICISM: do men and women have the same idea of oneself?

34. DEFINITION OF SELF MAN SEPARATION COMPETITIVENESS UNIQUENESS WOMAN
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DEFINITION OF SELF
MAN
SEPARATION
COMPETITIVENESS
UNIQUENESS
WOMAN
SOLIDARITY
INCLUSIVENESS

35. LOVE, DESIRE, PASSION: A MORE ADULT APPROACH TO SEX?
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LOVE, DESIRE, PASSION: A MORE ADULT APPROACH TO SEX?

36. GIRARD: DESIRE CONSENSUS INSECURITY
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GIRARD: DESIRE CONSENSUS INSECURITY

37. The meeting with the Director: his “confessions”
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The meeting with the Director: his “confessions”

38. THE RESERVATION AS A MILD CONCENTRATION CAMP
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THE RESERVATION AS A MILD CONCENTRATION CAMP