Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Unthinkable, Dialectic, Labour Power
22 Mar 2016
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Semiology postulates a relaion between two terms, a signiier and a signiied. This relaion concerns objects which belong to diferent categories, and this is why it is not one of equality but one of equivalence (8) "the female is female by virtue of a certain lack of qualiies" (108) Humanity is male, and man deines woman, not in herself, but in relaion to himself; she is not considered an autonomous being (108) The two sexes have never divided the world up equally (110) That which is universal and spontaneous, and not dependent on any paricular culture or on any determinate norm, belongs to nature. Inversely, that which depends upon a system of norms regulaing society and therefore is capable of varying from one social structure to another, belongs to culture (40) [l vi-strauss] encounters what he calls a scandal something which no longer tolerates the nature/culture opposiion something which simultaneously seems to require the predicates of nature and of culture.
