ANTC32H3 Lecture Notes - Mathematical Logic, Republican Motherhood, Linguistic System
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Antc32 w10: experience semiotic/discursive reality, meaning - practical reality. Systems of meanings, such as gender system that organizes this thing to masculine and feminine. Attributing meanings into a matter so that matter exists organically to convey these meanings. It creates hierarchy, like female and male bodies, classifying women"s work and men"s work, and characterizes space such as private/public domain. All these things exist apart from these objects. Aretxaga says why we cannot directly experience because we are structured by the systems of meaning that categorize us in certain ways. Her examples of trying to figure out what they are. She also shows the state power state offers women work, under women"s work such as motherhood. This is what sayer and corrigan talked about in terms of moral regulation. The norms and values that make people get by. Politics is any more or less conscious or more or less intervention into the shape of reality, or the condition of the possible.
