Media, Information and Technoculture 3201F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Essentialism, Zoe Leonard

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 3201F/G
• Professor: Mc Kinney

Document Summary

Sexuality is not natural or inevitable it is culturally and socially constructed. Media is one of the primary ways through which we come to understand it. Sex is a natural force that exists prior to social life, eternally unchanging, asocial, trans-historical, a property of individuals. Taboo notions never planned (it just happens) She is portrayed as a desiring woman who enjoys sex. Hierarchies of sexual value (cid:862)the (cid:374)eed to draw a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374) a(cid:374) i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)ar(cid:455) li(cid:374)e (cid:271)etwee(cid:374) good and bad se(cid:454)(cid:863) (cid:894)ru(cid:271)i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1009)(cid:1006)(cid:895) Zoe leonard (cid:862)i wa(cid:374)t a preside(cid:374)t(cid:863) pie(cid:272)e of art queer interruption in a public realm. We are more or less vulnerable to political institutions. Desires, and sexual politics, are constituted through historically specific cultural practices, including practices with media. Sexuality is as much a human product as are diets, methods of transportation, systems of etiquette, forms of labour, types of entertainment, and modes of oppression (149)