MPC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Deer Hunter, Fredric Jameson, Jacques Lacan
16 Feb 2018
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Schizophrenia (french psychoanalyst jacques lacan) as a language disorder" A breakdown of the relationship between signifiers" Language has a past//future - concrete/lived experience of time. Link to mode of cultural representation over history. Hyperspace - a space where we can no longer orient ourselves in a meaningful way. Spaces of global capital // simultaneous presence (i. e mall, casino, disneyfication of global culture) I. e eaton centre // airport: hyperreal replacement of the original city - spacelessness // transient spaces of global/capital flow. Our society lives in a perpetual present - memory has a history. When any is conserved and reappears in a representation - we are in the presence of a memory effect. Sites of memory" (lieux de m moire) - represent cultural histories. Vietnam war - 1st televised war" // living room war" Expose the present atrocity of war that were obscene by strict censorship of the. Direct contributor to antiwar movement - access to reality // matter of representation.
