The issue of Cultural Studies that my group will be discussing in class focuses on the issue of everyday life. As the introduction to the special issue establishes, the pervasiveness of the events and patterns of everyday life have been near impossible to concretely establish. Cultural studies scholars have struggles for make sense of what everyday life is and should be. Lefebvre describes everyday life as a "whole," while Harootunian states that everyday life has "expanded with greater differentiation and proliferation of social subjects where nothing is left out." If this is the case, what cannot be discussed as a facet of everyday life?
In order to explore the issue, and definitions, or everyday life, I intend to focus my paper on Pinterest as a site for communicating methods of routine. With a large amount of posts devoted to creating schedules and routines, Pinterest is utilized to create an expectation of what successful everyday life looks like in modern society.
First, I intend to discuss how the concept of everyday life has been affected by modernity. Secondly, I intend to demonstrate that Pinterest, unlike cultural studies, works to concretely establish the routines and happenings that make up everyday life, and by doing so, determines that there are exclusions from what can be considered elements of everyday life.
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