SOSC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Judith Butler, Rodney King, Episteme
12 Dec 2015
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Episteme: world view which gives shape to the knowledge of that time. Racist episteme: racial schematization of the visible field. Racism pervades perception: whiteness as an episteme operates despite the presence of 2 nonwhite structuring what we perceive jurors. Judith butler on rodney king: reproducing the video within a racially saturated field of visibility, defense attorneys for police in the rk case argued that he was a danger to the police officers. Colonial tropes: figurative as metaphor, symbolic sense, deeply rooted repetition of discursive patterns, colonialism rationalized through the use of tropes, animalization. Animalization: associates people with the instinctual realm rather than the cultural, darwinist survival of the fittest. transferring a zoological notion to, body rather than mind. Tropes of eroticization: the colonized world is represented as feminine: to justify invading it, penetrating it and conquering it as a matter of.
