CMN2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: White Supremacy, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Masculinity
16 Oct 2016
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Struct: differences, white/black, male/female, in/out. post-struct: critique of hierarchy, essentialism and binary logic. Binary logic becomes way of constructing the world (nature vs. culture: nature: untouched from constructed (but can be altered). Hegemony of the body:2 standards of beauty - essentialist and constructionist. The body: view/idea that you can never change. yet socialized into different categories. Buying up of local producers, homogenization (schiller: colonialism to post colonialism, c: inequality, exploitation, white supremacy. 2nd-the crucial resource of new society os technoscientific knowledge. 3rd- invention and diffusion of icts is the prime mover in new era. 4th- 22674 increasingly depends on an info economy in which the exchange & manipulation of data matched the importance of material processing. 5th- techno-economism is accompanied by far reaching & positive transformations 6th- the ict revolution is huge. 7th- not just a new phase in civilization, but a new phase in life.
