Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Xenophobia, Tv Tropes, Mirror Stage
22 Mar 2016
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Mit 2200f mapping media and cultural theory. Deconstrucion: hierarchies, instability, and material consequences (they do stuf ) The erasure of history: orientalism creates an image outside history; creates an ideal other for western culture. Discourse: foucault"s discourse analysis focuses on power relaionships in society as expressed through language and pracices. Discourse is a regulated system of producing knowledge within certain constraints, whereby certain rules have to be observed. Vast generalizaions that are astonishingly persistent in western rhetoric. Middle-eastern people a lesser breed that cannot be reasoned with. I would also add: the eroicized eastern other . To think past [this discourse] is virtually impossible because there"s no knowledge that isn"t codiied in this way about that part of the world . Q: in the ilm, said states: the arabs have paricipated and coninue to allow themselves to be represented as orientals" in this orientalist way .
