RHETOR 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Medieval University
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Rhetoric 20 notes 4-20-17: sontag, part 1: social norms, part 2: making the world comfortable. Imperialism - surveillance photos, aerial photos - provide security: part 3: ethical photography, energy of a photograph that can be recharged. Hence post-photography: museums anesthetize images - it"s like a shopping mall instead. About consumption: trying to find new way to present world in a way that has to do with ethics. Provokes ethical thought: part 4: provides information, can name things, can assign significance - barthes, sontag says photos on their own can"t explain anything - needs a, barthes narrative/ verbal or inter- and extra-textual information. Must hide more than it describes: can"t show as much as it wants to say. Feeling, not just a dry, intellectual message: being interested, nostalgia fits in area of studium. Investment, but mild investment - enough to be able to look at it: punctum (pg 49-59) Rises like arrow : trigger, detonator, explosion, pensiveness, like a daydream.
