Check this for TEN REASONS
Check this for TEN REASONS THE US DOESN’T SUCK IN 2002and this for 10 REASONS IT DOES I find myself for the most past in agreement with all 20 observations. Especially DJ Shadow as a important figure in global culture. Which brings me to my next area of thought for the day… what is global culture? Whos taste are considered when trying to define such a thing? Or is it a matter of taste at all? I don’t think that Santa Clause and DJ shadow occupy the same station in the world but both could be considered part of global culture, So I guess I don’t think that “global culture” is the same as “pop culture”… but how is it different? humhum hum… maybe I will come to a point of more clarity, maybe I won’t.
SO this is what I ended up saying to my teacher in reponse to the book.
Identity
After reading Felix Krull I have decided that the novel is primarily about the arbitrariness of identity. Felix is the best example of this idea. He is a person who does not feel the constraint of being bound to a particular identity. He manifests this freedom through his constant defining and redefining of his character. His ability to do this is bound to the language that he chooses to use in the definition of his being, as well as the superficial manipulation of his physical appearance.
In the early portion of of the novel he defines himself as a school boy named Felix Krull, later he takes on the form of Armand a life operator, and concurrently maintains the identity of a young socialite, and still later he takes on the identity of Louis, the Marquis de Venosta. The only change that actually takes place as he switches from identity to identify is the way in which he uses language to define himself as well as the clothing that he chooses to wear.
What I think this indicates is that identity is not something innately bound to a person and their station in life, if that were so, it would be impossible for Felix to redefine himself as he moved from role to role. The consequences of this proposition are profound, because it means that there is no real security in a person supposed ?being?, as it is actually subject to the whims of human freedom.