SOCB51H3 Lecture : Our desires are ungovernable.docx

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22 Apr 2012
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Our desires are ungovernable (writing graffiti in urban space mark halsey and alison young) This topic mainly focuses on the nature of norms, normative behavior, how to talk about deviance and how to think about norms through art and work. Graffiti exists as a paradoxical phenomenon as both aesthetic practices and criminal activity. On a wall in melbourne"s suburb of fitzroy, someone has written, in a rounded cursive script: our desires are ungovernable" (see figure 1). We have taken that notion seriously: interviews with writers demonstrated to us that graffiti is, overwhelmingly, about pleasure and desire in the act of writing. Therefore, where graffiti is often thought of as destructive, we would submit that it is affective as well. Massumi writes that affect is akin to the ways in which the body can connect with itself and with the world. That"s because affects are basically ways of connecting, to others and to other situations.

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