Media, Information and Technoculture 2153A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Socalled, Metar

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2153A/B
• Professor: Paul Aitken

Document Summary

Its meaning derived from these authors: it"s brought about by a reading process that is context bound and culturally produced; there is no preexisting metaphysical or transcendental meaning that"s somehow found under or above the text. Authors, readers, and subjects always happen in a cultural context. Subcultures: not fully expressed cultures in and of themselves, part of a larger framework, beliefs at variance with larger culture they are a part of. They like to talk about culture as a process. Do not have to think about culture as a stable or static object, it is something that is constantly brought into being expressed in the various rituals and traditions. There is no one master meaning, it is always being produced and evolving. Two main trajectories of thought, how culture has been thought of historically: of. Appears as a useful way to define a culture, use it as a way to draw boundaries.