Wednesday 16 January 2008
Week 2 - Barker, Ch. 4 (Linguistic Turn)
Language constitutes cultural meanings. Saussure pioneered "semiotics" - study of signs. Meaning developed in word grouping. Derrida = meaning never fixed but "deferred and supplemented." Deconstruction takes apart and seeks assumptions of text. Foucault – meaning = "Panopticon" - prison surveillance courtyard. Post-Marxism = class not merely economical but product of discourse. Lacan takes Freud = "phallus" = universal signifier. "Unconscious" where meanings are generated. Rorty says truth = human construct and not possible outside human "texts."
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Good connections Jim but I would like for you to write all these reviews out in complete sentence form, showing someone who's never read the text your comprehension of the reading.
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