Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Louis Althusser, Scantron Corporation, Jacques Lacan

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G
• Professor: Sasha Torres

Document Summary

Tells us that there"s this sense of autonomy and initiative and submitting to a higher authority and being stripped of freedom on the other. (cid:498)a subjected being, who submits to a higher authority, and is therefore stripped of all. Freedom, except that of freely accepting his submission(cid:499) With the subject and the subjective being we can"t fully know ourselves and people can"t really know us. It is this contradiction which is key to the subject. The chart (slide 14) showing the contradictions in the notion of the subject and the subjective being. There"s no freedom because we are all subject to something (ex. We think of ourselves as autonomous individuals but the notion of the subjective being emphasizes the way that we are constrained by structure like language and ideology. In certain situations we are autonomous but in others we aren"t by our cultural.