CMN 269 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Defamiliarization
25 May 2016
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An action, event or object perceived as a unified whole. Anything can serve as a signifying practice/anything can carry meaning within it. Recognizable to others and has an understood meaning, linked to a notion of group identity. Socially created reality: only understood because of cultural/historical links. Signs become artifacts as they become charged with meaning. Can be complex, even made up of other artifacts. Mounties are made up of artifacts, but mounties can be an artifact themselves that make up canada. An ideology or consciousness is an interrelated system of meanings that is generated by the system of artifacts that constitute a culture. Ideologies frame how we see the world, but not necessarily true. A text is a set of signs related to each other insofar as their meanings all contribute to the same set of effects or functions. Cultures are experienced through texts, we can never experience culture in its entirety.
