MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Binary Opposition, Flag Of Canada, Denotation
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For arnold, culture = the best which has been thought and said in the world: this is a very conservative and narrow definition of culture, contemporary cultural theory/media studies does not set high culture as apart from. You cannot remember a time when you were not a prisoner, shackled and immobile. In fact you don"t even know you are a prisoner. As far as you are concerned, your situation is completely normal. You"ve never seen them, because of the dark - but you talk to them. Shapes appear and disappear in front of you. You give them names, like tree, girl, house, and you discuss them excitedly with your fellow prisoners. You are satisfied with your life, because the cave is your life. You cannot imagine anything different: the roadway, unknown to the prisoners, this elevated causeway crosses through the cave.
