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Signifier and Signified
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| Word, image, sound, representing a concept |
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| Concept being represented |
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| a condition of false consciousness promoted through fictions sponsored by dominant class |
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| French philologist; structuralist in transition to post-structuralism; concerned with myth and ideology |
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| Denotation and connotation; levels of signification[image] |
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| Face value; surface meaning |
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| Deeper meanings; implications within |
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| physical relationship to what it represents |
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| Resembles what it's supposed to represent |
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| High degree of conventionality; requires one to learn how to interpret the sign |
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| Limitations/Criticisms of Saussure |
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| Too structuralist/determinist; too focused on theory; no relationship to physical world |
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| sign + object = interpretant |
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| experiential sphere; informs interpretant |
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| closest to Saussurian signifier |
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| Discourse, power/knowledge, subjectivity |
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| construction and context of a topic |
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| reflects apparatus and that produce meaning |
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| How the image places the viewer/observer and the subject/object of observation |
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| 3rd order of signification contesting representation in a revolutionary, empowering way |
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| conventionality embodies a way of seeing |
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| set practices of imagining meaning |
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| Berger's idea of the gaze |
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| women look at themselves through the eyes of men; men act, women appear; simultaneously observer and observed |
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| Post-colonial imperial gaze |
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| the observed find themselves defined in terms of observer's values; privileged observer asserts command |
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| "naked" means to know someone; "nude" divorces subject from subjectivity and becomes an object |
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| type and stereotype; race is a signifier |
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| repulsion and fascination with images of difference |
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| racialized regimes of representation |
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| practices of difference and "otherness"; involves stereotyping; a politics of representation |
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| Hall's methods of countering racism |
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1. substituting negative images with positive (eg Cosby)
2. Contest within representation
3. Accept and encourage representations (eg Machete) |
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