Cultural Theory 2 Flashcards
What is the promise of paradise?
A world beyond the world
What, according to Deleuze, is the basis of all transformation and give examples.
Assemblage and conversion
“Situation and action which leads to a change”
What is capital-induced-anxiety
capital-induced anxiety — a process of alienation and decomposition that disempowers and segments populations by turning them against each other and themselves by making social spaces “neat and orderly,” creating governable subjects conducive to top-down quantification and control, and providing the work-discipline and speed which capitalism demands. In other words, the reactive forces of capitalism create anxiety through bodily, emotional and sexual repression that operates through a restriction, a blockage, and a redirection of affect.
How is anxiety within capitalism reactive?
from New Right discourses blaming the poor for poverty, to contemporary therapies which treat anxiety as a neurological imbalance or a dysfunctional thinking style, a hundred varieties of management discourse — time management, anger management, parental management, self-branding, and gamification — all offer anxious subjects an illusion of control in return for ever-greater conformity to the capitalist model of subjectivity.
What is the thing the Situationists emphasize that every phase of affect management under capitalism is a public secret?
something that, though everyone knows and experiences, nobody publicly acknowledges or talks about. As long as the dominant affect of anxiety is a public secret, it remains effective, and strategies directed against its sources cannot emerge
immaterial labor
immaterial labor — labor that produces informational and cultural content as commodities — as a path to eventual liberation through the unleashing of human creative power.
“Michel Foucault’s notion of parrhesia—
The impulse to speak the truth at whatever cost—”
What is telepresence and which philosopher coined the term??
Paul Virilio. The immediate presence of different spaces to one another
Why I’m the dialectic of enlightenment did Adorno say the enlightenment leads to fascism?
Focusing everything on science and reason inevitably has nothing to say on morality which leads society to using people for its own sadistic pleasures.
What is the paradox of phallocentricity?
depends on the image of the castrated woman in order to give meaning into the world
(Her lack of penis gives Phallus a symbolic presence and her desire is to make good on what that lack signifies)
First order signification
That of denotation. There is a sign consisting of a signifier and a signified.
Anchorage and Relay
Anchorage- images prone to multiple meanings and interpretations. Anchorage is used to focus on one of these meanings or at least direct the viewer through the maze of possible meanings.
Relay-the text adds meaning and both text and image work to convey intended meaning. E.g. A comic strip.
