Modern Shit
The History of Shit by Dominique Laporte explores the function of waste throughout history as it plays roles in the development of language, technological development, and government laws. Correspondingly, the silent film Modern Times, by Charlie Chaplin, explores the consequences of the growth and use of new technologies in the industrial sphere and critiques the effect that it has on communication. Both texts reference industrialization as Chaplin analyzes the hierarchical structure of employees in a factory and uses that to highlight the complications brought to language, whereas Laporte refers to the processing of waste into financial means showing how society is always finding solutions that are applicable in terms of capitalism. In the History of Shit, waste can only be useful after it has gone through processes to become purified, similarly, in Modern Times, language is only understood by the audience when in a technological context, either passing through a machine or through a machinery simulation. Using the History of Shit as a lens for the interpretation of the …show more content…
“Humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness” (Chaplin, 1:15) is the opening statement of Modern Times. As a capitalist society, the goals of human kind and what comes from achievement of those goals are mostly related to financial value. Through government, humans are subjected to working towards generating more capital. Through language and technology, society is working towards finding clearer meanings through more complex forms of machines. Industrialization is working towards eliminating the concept of waste through putting it back into the
The History of Shit by Dominique Laporte explores the function of waste throughout history as it plays roles in the development of language, technological development, and government laws. Correspondingly, the silent film Modern Times, by Charlie Chaplin, explores the consequences of the growth and use of new technologies in the industrial sphere and critiques the effect that it has on communication. Both texts reference industrialization as Chaplin analyzes the hierarchical structure of employees in a factory and uses that to highlight the complications brought to language, whereas Laporte refers to the processing of waste into financial means showing how society is always finding solutions that are applicable in terms of capitalism. In the History of Shit, waste can only be useful after it has gone through processes to become purified, similarly, in Modern Times, language is only understood by the audience when in a technological context, either passing through a machine or through a machinery simulation. Using the History of Shit as a lens for the interpretation of the …show more content…
“Humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness” (Chaplin, 1:15) is the opening statement of Modern Times. As a capitalist society, the goals of human kind and what comes from achievement of those goals are mostly related to financial value. Through government, humans are subjected to working towards generating more capital. Through language and technology, society is working towards finding clearer meanings through more complex forms of machines. Industrialization is working towards eliminating the concept of waste through putting it back into the