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The Estrangement Project

The Estrangement Project . What Marxism says about critical theory, the human condition, and shaping history. You have your characters, and now it is time to put them to a good, honest use. .

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The Estrangement Project

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  1. The Estrangement Project What Marxism says about critical theory, the human condition, and shaping history.

  2. You have your characters, and now it is time to put them to a good, honest use. Someone once said to me: “It’s not about who you are, it’s about what you do.” How does that make your character feel? What sorts of actions does this inspire? Explain in detail what your honorable character does after hearing this.

  3. Feeling discouraged? I want you to take a deep breath and remember two things:1. You share this feeling with plenty of other characters here.2. If this “feeling” affects your writing, it will cost you. While we are on the subject, the cost of all resources used will be added at the end of the project. Now that we have an intrinsic and extrinsic character, lets give them a story. Describe a climax in the lives of your characters, complete with a climax and a resolution.

  4. Like all things, we have reached the end. Your characters have grown from simple, shallow products, to complex entities capable of shaping their own history, and the history of their culture. They have lived and produced just as you have and will. In the best way that you see fit given the nature of your creation, kill off your character. Then present it for sale at the front desk.

  5. This has been most productive. Rest assured that your efforts will be well rewarded.

  6. List of Terms • Laborer: In contrast to Plato’s craftsmen, the laborer losses their ownership of what they produce to the system. • Estrangement: Your existence and history is created by what you have done in your life rather then who you are/were. • Alienation: The loss of human nature to Capitalism. Furthermore, the entire loss on one’s “self.” • Structural Violence: The code of conduct with the structure of Capitalism governing and monitoring your production, and contribution to the system. • Commodity: The product, or “external object” that satisfies a human need and is therefore able to be sold. • Means of Production: The tools used in production usually owned and sold or rented to the laborers. • Labor Power: The selling of human labor, as Felluga explains it “the relation of exchange value to use-value.” • The Self: The inner humanity, knowledge, and enlightenment of one’s being. The loss of ownership by being a laborer contributes to the loss of self.

  7. Work Cited • Felluga, Dino. "Terms Used by Marxism." Introductory Guide to Critical Theory. Date of last update, which you can find on the home page. Purdue U. March 12th 2013. <http://www.purdue.edu/guidetotheory/marxism/terms/>. • Richter, David H.. "The Alienation of Labor From Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844." The Critical tradition: classic texts and contemporary trends. 3 ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. 400-406. Print. • Richter, David H.. "Marxist Criticism." The Critical tradition: classic texts and contemporary trends. 3 ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. 1198-1214. Print.

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