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Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men [and women] to the divine.
Problematizing the process of communication: Not Taking Communication for Granted!
Is the act of framing, labeling, and identifying the subjectivity (or identity) of a person or a social group. Power is the lynchpin underlying the process of interpellating.
Signification
1. Signifying-Process of what and how something is being identified.
Masculine/ Feminine; Good/ Bad.
2. Signifier-Person or Persons identifying, naming an object.
Individual/ Community/ Authority Figure.
3. Signified-What has been, and how an object, person or group has been
identified.
Elite/ Criminal.
Race and Ethnicity
Gender and Sexuality
Class
Memory
Poverty
Immigration
A theory developed by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf that states that the structure of a language determines or greatly influences the modes of thought and behavior characteristic of the culture in which it is spoken.
Can be based on distinctions (tastes) but at the core of tastes may lie strong political currents to them; and rarely are things ever apolitical.
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a priori
a posteriori
A way of reasoning from known facts or past events rather than making or imposing predetermined or prefabricated explanations or predictions.
a fortiori
Used to express a conclusion for which there is stronger evidence than for a previously accepted explanation by examining and questioning pre-established ideas or explanations.
Do not take things for granted!
Question your base assumptions!
Challenge your understanding!