Many may think that when Krukowski says “The marginal, the rejected, the repressed, is what the powerful have decided that it is not useful at this time” He was not referring to the antiques that are not available anywhere, which in themselves are art. But I must say that before mentioning this, Krukowski gave us an explanation of a phrase by a revolutionary person, giving us an understanding that old things have great value. He wants to get at the fact that with the marginalized, society can have different perspectives, tastes and ideas.

The powerful are what everyone appreciates. On the other hand, the marginalized are what only a few detail-oriented people appreciate. According to Krukowski, being “surprised” is not helpful. For social platforms, it would be chaos, and for auditory platforms, it could be as bad as it is good. But “discovering” offline, Krukowski says, would be as calm and easy as going to a bookstore. For him, this is important because the difference is that when you go to a physical space, you enter another world. On the other hand, when you enter a web browser, there is no one else. There is only you and the algorithm. Your level of learning is limited because you only find the answers to your questions.

The big difference in music listening between the ones enabled by Forced Exposure and the ones that Paul Lamere works on with platforms like Spotify is that Forced Exposure discovers music from around the world and allows you to explore beyond your expectations. But on platforms like Spotify, what happens is that it works with an algorithm that recommends songs similar to the ones you like (basically, it’s predictable), limiting your right to explore and discover beyond the world of music.

In “Living with Music,” Ralph Ellison describes how music affects his living experience so badly. He describes at the beginning how all this noise around him was so annoying. He couldn’t write anything because he could barely hear his thoughts. From his own words, he said:

To our right, separated by a thin wall, was a small restaurant with a juke box the size of the Roxy. To our left, a night-employed swing enthusiast who took his lullaby music so loud that every-morning promptly at nine Basie’s brasses started blasting my typewriter off its stand. Our living room looked out across a small backyard to a rough stone wall to an apartment building which, towering above, caught every passing thoroughfare sound and rifled it straight down to me. (Ralph Ellison 227)

He describes all the separate noises, and we can tell (if we have experience in a neighborhood like this) that the noises themselves aren’t so annoying. Each of the sounds has basically a little art and story behind them. What I mean is, when a person is singing, maybe this person isn’t good at it, but she or he could be singing with such a passion that it makes you think that, in some ways, it is beautiful how the person is giving herself or himself a chance to dream. At the end, he tells us how he feels that the Oklahoma days weren’t so bad at all. He mentions that they were “glorious”. Such a pain he couldn’t figure out early. Now he lives with nostalgia (a good friend of mine).

A type of comparation that I can make within Ellison’s essay and Episode 2 of Damon Krukowski’s is the relevance of the noises. They have this “annoying” experience, but each of them thinks differently. Meanwhile, Krukowski thinks how each person’s bubble of sound is causing people not to socialize as much as in the old days. Ellison thinks and had the experience that in the end, each person’s bubble becomes one.

I agree with Berger when he refers to the fact that photographs mostly show black people as victims and not as people who defend their rights, however it can be said that I am somewhat in between since we cannot deny that many times black people have stood out as people who defend their rights in several important movements in history. Like the one I have lived through, that is to say BLM.

1-According to Berger, advertising imagery influences consumers in the way they either desire or envy what they are seeing. This is significant because people live with a lot of advertising around them and this affects them if they don’t have enough to get it, ending up at a point of collapse because they don’t have what others do.

2-The differences between oil painting and advertising photography are important because painting shows you what you have and the appreciation you have for it, but advertising photography simply modifies what you have to show it as something new so that you want to acquire it as if it were something necessary. What it reveals about the production of images for advertising is that they are little deceptions by companies to make you want their products.

3-Advertising uses the dream of a faraway place in images of people on a small vacation on the beach, in a resort, or even in another country to manipulate consumers that they too need it to be happy.

1.  According to Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, writers should use the model of “entering the conversation” in their writing. The advantages of this model are that; in this way the writers could express better their argument given their audience two points of view. Giving them the evidence of how their arguments are right. Also instead of simply being in an opposing or agreeing position, they can establish their point of view in the middle. Communicating to their audience that the two topics have curious and diverse points. Which would generate much more interest in the writing.
2. I agree with smarthistory’s video, that looking at artwork helps you to analyze other situations. Because I think that if you already have in mind how to solve, or communicate how and why the artwork was made in such a way. You also already have an example in mind of how you might solve a situation or problem you are involved in.