VCC101H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Antonio Gramsci, Edward Said, Mirror Stage
15 Feb 2017
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Systematic method of studying images: semiology/semiotics. Complexity of meaning in signs from everyday life. Came out of marxist critiques of capitalism in western europe. Structuralism: looked at structure of myths in his own culture, structuralist analysis: breaks up object into its underlying structure. Structural linguistic: linguistic signs are arbitrary. No relationship between signifier and signified: structure of language is important. One of the two major founders of semiotics/semiology. Philosopher, logician, scientist (cid:862)father of prag(cid:373)atis(cid:373)(cid:863: philosophical topics = best viewed in terms of practical uses. Sign, object, interpretant: 3 types of signs icon, index, symbol. Influence on empiricism: theory that states that knowledge comes from only our sensory experience. Combine psychoanalysis with structuralism: the way we are addressed by social institutions. Dominant social classes that own or control newspaper/media are able to control content. Those who own the means of production = in control of the ideas circulated: louis althusser.
