CUL121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Egg Cell, Dualism, Fetus

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Critical and Cultural Studies
• Course: CUL121
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

* medical technologies of visuality and the reproductive body. * links between forms of looking in entertainment and science. * looking as an act of power, the male gaze; looking as not being an innocent act but as an act of power. * visual texts help to constitute subjectivity; how we think about ourselves and others, make sense of ourselves. * photography of looking at faces and stereotype (criminal, jewish, problematic people in the state) * scientific ways of knowing: cultural studies approaches. * what does it all mean? scientific and political imagining of who we are. * enable the world as it truly is. * creating universal knowledge- the same regardless of who generates it. * this is a positivist account of science. * a critique of positivism: science and discourse. * what science sees and describes is shaped by cultural forces and discourses. * how we imagine and describe what we find out.