CMST 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Deconstruction, Lightdark, Thesis Statement

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2G03
• Professor: Spencer Smith

Document Summary

Is & as : intersections of power and identity perfromance as spectacle (27/02/17) How do these signi ers of identity categories work together to produce an identity as spectacle? (3) you need a thesis: working towards making a claim about performance & performativity. Disciplines such as communication studies, cultural studies, performance studies, gender studies, and. Critical race studies tend to exist at the intersection between academia and activism: academic theorizing and lines of questioning v. the assertion of right/wrong, of a solution to a speci c problem. The conversation isn"t so much about what is right and what is wrong or you wearing this versus not wearing it. What is and what isn"t cultural appropriation : there is violence (symbolic) of taking it as your own both politically and historically. Binary oppositions are always a relation of power, in which one term is in a position of dominance with regard to the other .