Description
Answer the questions,originality is one of the criteria.
1.What’s Harari’s justification/evidence for the following statement – why are they imagined?
“The nation is the imagined community of the state. The consumer tribe is the imagined community of the market.”
2.What are the main argument/s that Harari puts forward in the section “The Collapse of the Family and Community” (p.398 – 405)? Do you agree with the characterisation of the role of states, markets and individuals as defined by the section? Why or why not?
3.Examine Zuboff’s arguments in “The Two Modernities” What does the author mean by ‘individualization’, and how it progress or change between the first and the second modernity? How do you feel about Zuboff’s narrative, do you agree or disagree and why?
4. While Harari and Zuboff touch on similar themes, they adapt different approaches both in the kinds of evidence they present and the way they tell their stories – Comment on these differences, do you find one more persuasive than the other? Why?
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