Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jacques Lacan, Mirror Stage, Black Model
22 Mar 2016
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Mit 2200f mapping media and cultural theory. The author speaks of his experience as a black man, speciically how he became an object as a result of his race. Author writes of how he had to endure and someimes atempt to do away with being an object for the white man to look at in every single aspect of his blackness. Argues that the ontology put forth by jean-paul sartre and gwf hegel is lawed because white people can consitute people of colour as objects with their gaze. However, people of colour cannot do the same to white people those with dark skin have to confront the manufactured histories about their cultures and origins placed upon them in colonialist society. His liberaion came from other people"s gaze, paying atenion to him. A black man is black in relaion to the white man: blackness is not a self-created idenity it is thrust upon people, it is determined by one"s outer appearance.
