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Culture Studies (Subject) / Critical terms and concepts (Lesson)
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- Subjective sth particular ti the view of an individual opposite of objective personal, specifc, imbued with values and belief of a certai person
- Subject position ways that images designate a position for their intended spectators Foucault:place that a certain discourse asks a human subject to adopt within it
- Sublime term in aesthetic theory especially in work of Edmund Burke sets out to evoke experiences so momentous that they inspire intense awe in viewer/listeneer. history of traditional landscape paintings-->imaging sublime, intended to evoke a deep awe of nature
- Surface postmodernist idea objects have no depth, profound meaning exist only at surface contrast to modernity
- Surrealism political movment, early 20th century expressed through literature, theater, visual arts focus on role of unconscious in representation, dissolving of opposition between real and imaginary working against logical preocesses of making meaning later associated with freudian psychoanalysis automatic writing/painting use of dreans Freud:they brought unconscious feelings to expression, not represent them
- Surveillance act of keeping watch over a person or place camer technologies Foucault:=Primary mean thorugh which society enacts controlover subjects, encouraging self-regulation
- Symbolic sign semiotics, Peirce without connection between signifier and signifies, except that from convention language systems inconic, indexical, symbolic signs
- Synergy industry describe ways that corporate conglomerates own aspects of cultural production, programming, distribution across many media, into geographic locales capacity of corporations, that owns many media broadcaste networks, cable TV, magazines...-->vertically integrate across programming and distribution, market products globally
- Tactic michel de Certeau practices of people without positions of power to gain control over the space of dairly lives acts of week-->no lasting effect contrast strategies of institutions
- Taste cutural theory: shared artictsic and ciltural values of a social community/individual informed by class,cultural background,eductaion... notions good taste-->middle/upper-class bad taste-->low, mass culture tasted can be learned through cultural institutions
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- Technological determination position that sees technology as most important factor in social change techbnology=seperate from social/cultural influence people are merely observers,faciliators of technlogical progress discussed, cannot be seen as autonomous, outside those influences=result of them
- Television flow Raymond Williams television incorporates interruption into a seemingly continous flow everything part of a single entertainment experience 1970's
- Text Roland Barthes visual media are constructed on basis of codes like written language distinguished texts from work active relationship between writer/reader, artots,producer/viewer constructed nature=texts meaning in contextual more than work itself treat an artwork as text=read it through codes
- Textual poaching Michel de Certeau ways that viewers can read+interpret cultural texts, film, TV, to rework those texts viwers of polpular culture can inhabit text by renegotiating its meaning, or by creating new cultural products in response to
- Third World post WWII period-end of 20th century countries located in Africa,Asia, Latinamerica political theory (west=first world, east=second world) change with technologies, global media and information sytsems
- Transcoding taking terms and meaning, appropriating them to create new meanings t.e. queer
- Unconscious central concept in psychoanalytic theory indicates phneomena out of the conscious repository for desires, fantasies, fears activates and motivates us, though we are unaware of it unconscious+conscious do no work together-->human, divides, split subject equally active
- Use value practical function, assigned to a commodity what it does contrast to exchange value marxist critism in capitalism, exchange over use value
- Virtual things that exist, but in no physical way virtual version of something is capable of functioning in a number of wayys that simulate the experiencee of its physical counterpart viirtual images-->no real referent, analog and digital virtual space=spaces, taht are electronically constituted, space defined by internet, web... must not confrom physical law think of virtual spaces as being similar to real spaces
- Visuality quaity/state fo being visual characterizes our age, everyday life is dominated by visual images
- Voyeurism taking pleasure out of looking without being seen pssychoanalytic historically associated with masculine spectator experience of cinematic spectator
- Web system of interlinkes hypertext documents accressed through the internet 1989 CERN Tim Berner-lee central communication and infromation network for a large sector of populations of developed countries web 2.0 second generation social networking