Discourse: Ellen Lupton’s Deconstructivist Theory Key concepts from Ellen Lupton’s A Post-Mortem on Deconstruction? * Deconstruction is part of a broader field of criticism known as “post-structuralism‚” whose theorist have included Jacques Derrida‚ Roland Barthes‚ Michel Foucault‚ Jean Baudrillard‚ among others. Each of these writers has looked at modes of representation – from alphabetic writing to photojournalism – as culturally powerful technologies that transform and construct “reality”
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jobs. However the unemployment rate kept rising. So the problem was still there‚ and the worst part was that the rate was still rising. Following these results in 1986 the conservative party won control of the National Assembly‚ and they selected Jacques Chirac as leader of the coalition and Prime Minister‚
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Jean Jacques Rousseau was born on June 28‚ 1712 to Isaac Rousseau‚ a clock maker‚ and Suzanne Bernard‚ who died only a few days after his birth in Geneva. His father went into exile when he was charged with stealing and tried to cut his accuser. Rousseau was sent to a religious school by his uncle‚ when he attended this school he suffered from extreme discipline which cause him to have problems with authority. When Jean Jacques left the school‚ he was alone with no one to take care of him. In an
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Freedom is a very broad term and it is subject to many different interpretations‚ such as the example given by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on his book The Social Construct. He stated that “Man is born free‚ and everywhere he is in chains”‚ implying that no individual is truly free. He believes that people have the right to be free but are not able to be for they are enslaved to the societies that they belong in. Though this may sound a bit negative‚ Rosseau talks about when it is proper to do such a
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of Consciousness. Boston: Twain Publishers‚ 1991. Emig‚ Rainer Gamble‚ Isabel. “Clarissa Dalloway’s ‘Double’.” Critics on Virginia Woolf. Ed. Jacqueline E.M. Latham. Coral Gables‚ FL: University of Miami Press‚ 1979. 52-56. Graham‚ John Lacan‚ Jacques. “Seminar on ‘The Purloined Letter’.” The Purloined Poe: Lacan‚ Derrida‚ and Psychoanalytic Reading. Ed. John P. Muller and William J. Richardson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press‚ 1988. 28-54. --- Restuccia‚ Frances L. Amorous Acts: Lacanian
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Cited: Storey‚ John (2009b) Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader‚ 4th edn‚ Harlow: Pearson Education Coward‚ Rosalind (1984)‚ Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today‚ London: Paladin. Lacan‚ Jacques (1989)‚ Four Fundamental Concepts in Psychoanalysis‚ New York: Norton. Lacan‚ Jacques (2009)‚ ‘The mirror stage’‚ in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader‚ 4th edn‚ edited by John Storey‚ Harlow: Pearson Education. Hall‚ Stuart (1992)‚ ‘Cultural studies and its theoretical legacies’
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Theory‚ Vol I. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press‚ pp 3 – 16. <br><li>Lacan‚ J (1988) ‘The insistence of the letter in the unconscious ’ in Modern Criticism and Theory‚ ed. D Lodge. Essex: Longman Group‚ pp 79 – 106. <br><li>Lodge‚ D (1988) ‘Jacques Derrida ’ in Modern Criticism and Theory‚ ed. D Lodge. Essex: Longman Group‚ pp 107 - 108.
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It seems natural to think about novels in terms of dreams. Like dreams‚ novels are fictions‚ inventions of the mind that‚ although based on reality‚ are by definition not literally true. Like a novel‚ a dream may have some truth to tell‚ but‚ like a novel‚ it may need to be interpreted before that truth can be grasped. There are other reasons why an analogy between dreams and novels seems natural. We can live vicariously through romantic fictions‚ much as we can through daydreams. Terrifying novels
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Lecture1 : Review: Last week we talked about interpersonal communications. Gofman’s argument that people put on a front or a face. Comm is dramaturgical. Different circumstances call for different aspects of yourself to be brought into the public sphere. We all know that everybody is putting up a front and acting. It is in the acting that society comes together and is able to live together. Gofman is continuation of Katz two step flow‚ role of opinion leaders‚ and importance of people in comm
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------------------------------------------------- Abject Design ------------------------------------------------- A psychoanalytic/structuralist analysis of Julia Kristeva’s “The Old Man and the Wolves” Julia Kristeva’s The Old Man and the Wolves details the gradual degeneration of the fundamentally corruptible community of Santa Varvara. As described by the novel’s namesake‚ the Old Man Septicious Clarus‚ in terms of singularity‚ morality and—both metaphorically and palpably—humanity‚ each
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