Outlining my cool ass paper.
Thesis? ... Maybe: being cool keeps us from being ourselves.
Thesis? ... Maybe: cool is a state of mind, we make design definitions to our benefit.
Thesis?... Maybe: coolness is a tragic social trap that pushes us into constant circles.
Thought: If we all have different definitions of cool then how come we all aren't cool?
Is it possible to think of or know of all of the definitions of cool? Why is being cool so important. We want to feel important and be important. Focus: on how teens play up/down the idea of "cool". Connect cool to music, TV shows, people, catch phrases, tattoos.... Why is cool important? Who makes cool important?
Um... that's all I can come up with now.
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I'll talk about it in class, but your first point relates to a point that Foucault began emphasizing increasingly - that these social constructions don't just LIMIT us, they also CONSTRUCT us. there is no "real self" separate from social construction - that would be like a tree separate from water and air and soil.
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