What is the true power of a symbol? And does it have the ability to take on or become a separate entity from that which it symbolizes? Does the simulation of reality equal a relative reality?
These were some of the question that arose while I was reading the piece on Bauldrillard. It [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Beyond the Twilight Zone
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Culture: a massive dose of conformity ( Horkheimer)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
One of the first things that struck me while reading this piece was the very first opening lines, explaining or pointing out rather the shift from religion to culture! Which I find scarily relevant to today. Neo-Conservatives argue that we have strayed away from morals, but our entire culture is a policing mechanism [...]
Active vs. Passive: Judith Butler
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While reading Judith Butler’s piece I kept wanting to know what the answer was. It is so depressing sometimes when you realize that almost (or according to Butler; all!) of our ideas and perceptions of ourselves are constructed by society. I mean she even goes as far as to say that this metaphysical self [...]
Birth of the Sexual Identity!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“On the surface, what appears in both cases is an effort at elimination that was always destined to fail and always constrained to begin again.”
Foucault begins his argument at the turn of the 19th century, in which he mainly focuses on the shift of the person and their identification. One might think that in order [...]
Rubin: De-Sex Me.
Posted in ENG 330 on April 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The oppression of women has become so interwoven into society that it has almost become engrained into females as “femaninity”. In some way sexuality has been translated into an invisible stamp that lables ability as well as net worth. A woman’s worth thus conotates a material value. A value that is interchangable between hands, particularly [...]
Symposium!
Posted in ENG 330 on April 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
”Psychologically our thought– apart from its expression in words– is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.” (Sassure 966)
When I think of poetry, I think of the manipulation of sound, space, and meaning. I also think in images. While sitting in the student reading protion of the symposium, I was not think in particular about the [...]
(a very delayed althusser) The realization of exploitation.
Posted in ENG 330 on April 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What is the point in which we all becomes slaves to a system, walking zombies whose only goal is to make our oppresive bosses richer.
According to Louis Althusser, it is the point in which our government or controling body has the ability to forever remove the person from that which he produces. In a way, [...]
