Assignment task: Can you please help me to write an assignment with a clear thesis, Introduction, body, conclusion, and convincing references? Can you write in the first-person (e.g., "I believe that") and share your own experiences and interests to make your case (i.e.,to support your thesis). Can you please connect to the readings throughout the essay with helpful quoting and paraphrasing, including in-body citations?
Pop Culture and the Financialization of Daily Life
In "Where Did the Future Go?", Randy Martin suggests, "Much has been said about what the regime of investment means for capital itself, but less focus has been given to the implications of finance's rule for the experience of daily life. One shift lies in how finance asks people to imagine their future or more specifically to see the future as already at hand. [ . . . ] Pre-emption is where foreign and domestic policy meet, where the American Dream encounters the U.S. imperium, where the internal obstacles to the ownership society become entangled with the war on terror." With Martin's understanding that financialization, e.g., risk management, now extends to all public spheres and private sectors,
1. Can you please help me to write an assignment that examines the ways that your favorite spy, dystopian, or post-apocalyptic text (e.g., film, video game, or TV show) reveals the financialization of daily life and the politics of risk-i.e., the future brought into the present.
2. Can you connect to Martin's essay, Also to David Harvey's Brief History of Neoliberalism and the James Bond essays to draw from to support the thesis.
3. Can you help the assignment to show how pop culture clarifies the relation between neoliberalism, space, place, and time.
4. Can you make clear connections to critical and theoretical texts (e.g., Barker's Cultural Studies with quoting, paraphrasing, and in-body citations)
5. Can you present an example of Culture from Below and Culture from Above. How does it connect to theory of popular culture (via theorists Beauvoir, Bordo, and Foucault)
6. Can you shift from modernity to postmodernity and modernism to postmodernism