VCC304H5 Lecture : Multiple Lectures Lectures notes taken during multiple classes. HUGE focus on power relations + subjectivity.
16 Oct 2011
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Vcc304 visual culture and the construction of identity lecture notes. We are all gay : one is presumed to be straight until otherwise said. Butler -> relationship b/t body, subjectivity, and identity: how they are attached, subjectivity. As if assigning a name to this subject: what is being constructed, co-extensive. As the bodies exist, they co-exist with one another. Constructivist: spatiality and materiality of a subject"s identity. Socially deterministic: all comes from social forces. As if we played no role in the subject. Volunteristic: everything is controlled by the user, you have total agency, self-determined, opposite of socially deterministic. Even less metaphysical level: origin of the human body-subject in death. If there is one single truth about the body-subject, it"s state of finite-ness is the fact that this body-subject will die: soul. The name assigned by foucault as the materiality of this finitetude existence. The soul is understood as the material rather than illusion.
