FSN 503 Midterm: Midterm #1 Notes - FSN503
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Aesthetic - philosophical notions about the perception of beauty and ugliness. Appropriation: taking a unique visual language or style and subverting it or using it for the purpose of disseminating your own message. Binary oppositions designate the first category as unmarked (the norm) and the second as marked (the other). Bricolage - a tactic of appropriation meaning literally to make do or piecing together one"s culture from whatever is at hand. When hegemonic forces re-appropriate tactics of marginalized cultures into the mainstream, it is a form of counter-bricolage. When you cobble together things from all over. Cartesian dualism and space - dualism of substances (5 parts) Individual things that can exit independently (this excludes shadows, water and wood) Most substances are complex; they are composed of other substances. Substances enter into relationships with other substances (being part, causality) Substances have properties, but they are more than bundles of properties.