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📖Week 3 - Identity
Class Media Theory
Categorie Class Readings
Date
Materials
Status Done
Type Exam prep
Context
Identity in Philosophy
Who am I? → one of the most basic questions that we as humans have
Metaphysics (ontology)
Who is the real me?
What is my essence of being?
Who am I?
Axiology (aesthetics/ethics)
What do I consider beautiful/ugly?
What do I consider good/bad?
What are my values?
Epistemology
How do I know myself/others/the world?
Identity as construction - Structuralism
Identity is never nutral / completely innocent
Week 3 - Identity 1
, Michel Foucault
Humans are molded into subjects through different social knowledge
systems (schools, family, etc)
Media are also knowledge systems → relates to McLuhans the medium is
the message
Semiotics → the laws through which we create and deride meaning
Binary oppositions: white VS black, mind VS body
There’s a lack of nuance
If you have these oppositoins, there is always one considered to be
supperior over another, implicitly
It’s a construction - not neutral
How has that been constructed and why? What would be the alternatives?
This is what the authors of this weeks texts do.
Critical theory is also questioning the structures that were constructed
Feminism critiques the structures in place that create inequality for women
Laura Mulveys essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative cinema → Women are
to-be-looked-at as object of the male (white, heterosexual) gaze
And after also orientalism; critisising lack of or stereotypical representation of
black, colored, non-binary characters
Richard Dyer - stereotypes and representation
Will be mentioned in the roadmap of culturalism
Writes about the role and function of stereotypes
shortcuts to say something really quickly
help us control
Writes about stereotypes of homosexuality
But also about straightness and whiteness
these are often seen as neutral, where they’re not really
he looked at the representation of whitness; what does it stand for?
Week 3 - Identity 2
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