For the first Lecture, we were shown various things that were in and out of context. First we were shown a cover of TIME magazine that covered September 11th, 2001. The Instructor asked us to recall what we were doing when we heard about this even in history. I talked about how i was in kindergarten taking a nap when my teacher turned on the television and they were covering it live. after he showed us this picture, he then showed us a picture of a album cover depicting the two towers blowing up with people posing in the foreground. We were asked to respond to this, and after we all did he told us that this cover was made before 9/11 actually happened.
After all this, he went onto show us how the context around the Volkswagen Beetle had changed since its original conception. Originally it was a car made and funded by the nazi warmachine, for its citizens. During the 60s it changed into a symbol of hippie culture, and nowadays people just think of it as a car.
This lecture was interesting because it showed us that things can change out view according to the context in which it is presented.
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