World Without Humanities


6/4/2012

 

Goals (?):

            Launch Viral Campaign (Meme for Facebook, etc.)

            Poster/Visual Ad

 

            Generate interest in 4 Humanities

            Bring people to website

            Create discussion re: value of Humanities

 

Themes and Framing Devices:

          Dystopian

          Kitsch

          50’s Like Movie Poster

 

What’s Missing w/o Humanites:

            Communication

            Rampant Capitalism

            No Civil Society (No Habermasian Commons)

            No Critical Thought

            Robots/Robot-like people (Wally) Idiocracy

            Lack of complex cultural production (good art, good literature)

 

Ideas:

            Romeo and Juliet Text-Msg

            Library  Hot Tub!

            Sarah Palin as President (well…)

            Lincoln Center (alienating?)

            Orwellian Dystopia

 

Format:

            Just for Internet?

            Posters?