COMN 3751 Lecture 3: COMN 3751 Feb 9th 2016
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It forces you to see the world through his eyes in a certain way. It forces you to a kind of identification with the image: this image tells us that society is like this. For hall images tell us something about power and something about the social world but they also tell us something about ourselves and the way we view the image and the world within it. Remember stuart hall"s key question where is the subject : a subject is not fixed but made, constantly destructing, un-made again and re-made and open for question. Subjectivity, for hall, is changing: national subjectivity who is the subject of the nation, who is the proper subject of canada, complex idea of nationhood. Subjects are constantly changing and fluid, they are the ideas and discourse we have about them. Michael foucault"s imperative is that we must refuse to be who we are.