SWP 928 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intentionality, Civilizing Mission, Plaintext
8 Feb 2017
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Intentionality and non-intentionality and what it can convey. Seen as records or evidence of what is real. Like artifacts reflect the social, ideological context. Images can present an isolated detail, purposefully: starving ethiopians. Helpless" africa, child-like in its stage of development. Referentiality: lends it a language that conflates reality with its representation. Played a role in construction of race and racism. Dichotomous construction of western (whites) as superior. Other" (racialized) as inferior the land" represented as underdeveloped inhabitants represented as infant-like; exotic, heathen (immoral) justify colonialism/imperialism as a civilizing mission. Politics behind the work development aid, whole structure behind it and needing intervention to modernize. How photographs reproduce and reinforce existing imbalances between global north and global. How images come in contact with the audience. How it is understood, if there is no contextuality there is a free interpretation of the message. What the audience does with the image: myth ties all the three.
