MPC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Berger, Mimesis, Outlast
16 Feb 2018
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Lecture 1 & 2: allegory of the cave. The role of a philosopher is to figure out what"s real and spread such knowledge down below to prisoners in the cave. Concepts of representation: representations reflect the world as it is, mimesis: presents events happen in reality b. Imitation, reflection: we construct the world and its meaning through representation, context, system of relations, language, social construction. Factual and expressional: surface level (common sense) Graphic layer: visually arresting because of graphic elements. Contextual layer: text anchor the content of the image. Intentional layer: putting forward an image with a sort of reflection. Engage dually between transmitting and expecting responses. Continuity editing: eliminates/hide edits to create fluid narrative built. Silence of painting: easily manipulated nature alters the transmittable meaning. Images gained power in their ability to outlast that which they portrayed. Imaged 1st made to conjure the appearance of thing that was absent (i. e valley of the.
