Two Birds, One Post

I’m going to make a combined posting of my paper ideas and a response to the Fiske reading because I’m not exactly sure which we were supposed to do.

Honestly, I feel like this paper is going to end up as a giant rant with a few statistics thrown here or there – in kinder, fancier English teacher terms this will be mostly a persuasive writing piece. I’d like to do “Goths in Tommorowland” but I think I would have difficulty finding statistics to support an argument. I think if I used Naomi Klein’s article I would have enough to research, but I agree way too much with her and her position that stating my own opinions on the issue would be redundant. For this paper I’m going to pull out the political card and lean to the right of the fence in order to rip Mike Davis a new one. I know it’s crazy considering I call myself a moderate-liberal, but I think I’ll be able to put together a solid argument by disagreeing with Davis’s article “Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space".

As for Fiske’s article: what a pompous critique on the art of mall-ratting.