J 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Colin Kaepernick, Stop Sign, Post-Structuralism
1 Oct 2016
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Critical theory gives us tools to understand the world around us beyond a superficial level. We will go to events where you will talk to others professionally; smart talk . Framework of ideas upon which people make decisions & act. System of ideas that inform the rules, procedures, & practices of society & its institutions. What is meant by a word, text, conception, or action. We are socialized in a prison-house of language images are also a language; languages have fixed meanings created system for signs signifier = image, word, sound signified = concept / meaning examples: cat, stop sign, turn signs. Agrees w/ saussure; goes beyond w/ ideologies being fixed also. Cultural institutions w/ power (position us w/ fixed meanings / cultural positions through ideology) In fact, consciousness itself is a product of the way a person relates w/ isas. Discourse is never fixed & is always changing.
