This week’s readings were on structuralism and power. The first text‚ “structure‚ sign and play”‚ was written by Jacques Derrida. In his text Derrida seems to discuss structuralism by arguing that there it is no longer unthinkable to think of structure as one that has no center. He argues that there is no longer a center to culture‚ as would be seen through a fixed frame which would act as the center presence within it. In example‚ during the medieval period‚ God would have been seen as the center
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Part A: theorizing the organization Organization theory can be observed from modern‚ symbolic interpretative‚ critical and postmodern perspectives that provide us with values‚ distinct beliefs and knowledge. In this essay‚ I will discuss on how modernists and postmodernist perspective differ in their basic ontological and epistemological assumptions‚ different ways of understanding and contributes to different ideas about power and the limits of power in organization. Ontology and Epistemology
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CLASH OF CIVILISATION ITS IMPACTS IN IR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY 2015 WHAT ARE WE DISCUSSING? FIRST TERM SECOND TERM • AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUBJECT • THE POLITIC OF IDENTITY • THE HISTORY AND THE FOUNDER • THE CLASH IN IR – THE EVIDENCE OF REALISM • THE FAULT LINES OF THE CLASH • REVIEW • THE OPPONENT • THE STORIES OF CLASH • THE CLASH IN THE AGE OF SECURITY THE HISTORY RE-TELLS INDIAN WAR CRUSADE WAR CARTHAGE VS ROME AZTEC AZTEC EXTINCTION EXTINCTION
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play-act gave the Chief the opportunity to amaze his fellow companions and ‘persuade them that his intermediacy was responsible for the exchange [of gifts]‚ that he had allied himself with the white man‚ and that he could now share in his secrets’ (Derrida‚ 1976‚ p.126). Substantially‚ this scene comes to show how quickly the Chief understood the power and use of writing and used it to reinforce his political authority. In that sense‚ writing becomes associated with power rather than knowledge. Thus
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justice as some believe that this subjective term is something that exists outside of the law while other thinkers believe that it something that is achieved through law. For Derrida‚ a given act or judicial decision cannot be considered just or unjust since no such decision exists rather it is an application of a rule (Derrida‚ 2002‚p. 243). Revenge: Any action that responds to perceived harm by another individual‚ institution or party that has intended to inflict injury or punishment on the person
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Ferdinand de Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure (/sɔːˈsʊr/ or /soʊˈsʊr/; French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century.[1][2] He is widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics.[3][4][5][6] One of his translators‚ Emeritus Professor of Linguistics (Oxford University)‚ Roy Harris‚ summarized Saussure’s contribution to linguistics and the study
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concerning the bridge between consciousness and sexual identity exist. The characteristic theme of the works of Stone is the role of the artist as poet. "Society is fundamentally meaningless‚" says Derrida. But Baudrillard’s model of neocultural textual theory holds that art is capable of truth. Derrida uses the term textual postcultural theory’ to denote the genre‚ and eventually the collapse‚ of postdialectic class. Thus‚ Marx suggests the use of textual socialism to deconstruct hierarchy. Surrealism
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Cultural Identity and Diaspora STUART HALL A new cinema of the Caribbean is emerging‚ joining the company of the other ’Third Cinemas’. It is related to‚ but different from the vibrant film and other forms of visual representation of the Afro-Caribbean (and Asian) ’blacks’ of the diasporas of the West the new post-colonial subjects. All these cultural practices and forms of representation have the black subject at their centre‚ putting the issue of cultural identity in question. Who is this emergent
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aporia associated with unconditional hospitality‚ the essay will examine this encounter in Derriddean terms of an encounter between ‘guest’ and ‘host’. With all this said‚ the essay will align this notion of hospitality‚ as it is conceptualised by Derrida‚ in dialogue with the notion of what it means to be a political refugee‚ grounding these two ideas in a sense of the political climate of the novel at Gurnah’s time of writing. By showing how post-colonial issues intersect with those of asylum‚ the
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