ACS 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: National Conversation, Canadian Identity, Umberto Eco

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 103
• Professor: Melissa Tanti

Document Summary

2 opposing views iyer (visitor) bissoondath (canadian) Real objects pass discourse, as it passes through that grid, particular means are attached that skew our understanding of things. Quality of discourse: it is always circulated in actions, symbols, people, there is room for intervention (versus ideology which bears down on society) Reshapes way we react to the world and people to the ways we act at the dominant thought processes at that time. It is violent and coercive by nature, we are pulled in line with the dominant views. Analogy: entering the military, the way discourse acts on our body. The repeated exposure to drills and exercises, the body is physically altered to be ready for the tasks to perform. Similarly, we are conditioned by discourse, aka femininity, or masculinity. Set of assertions that produce similar assertions (that become unquestioned) because they come from multiple places (disney films and racism)