Quiz 10 lol

Question 1

The impossibility of deciding between competing interpretations

Answer 1

Undecidability

Question 2

A new way of considering fragments not as from an original centered whole, but as constituents of a larger, but never completely graspable, entity.

Answer 2

Dissemination

Question 3

Following technological progression towards equality and justice (religion)

Answer 3

Grand Narratives

Question 4

Local explanations of individual events or phenomena that don’t attempt to explain everything

Answer 4

Little Narratives

Question 5

Challenges the logo-centric (authority of word, absolute truth etc.)

Answer 5

Decentering

Question 6

Postmodern blurs classic distinction between “real” and “copy”

Answer 6

Simulation

Question 7

Reality is fabricated by technology

Answer 7

Hyperreal

Question 8

Modern; ridicules by exaggerating the distance from “normal”

Answer 8

Parody

Question 9

Postmodern; no ridicule, no “normal”– blank, radical eclecticism

Answer 9

Pastiche

Question 10

Digital access is widespread

Answer 10

Ubiquitous authorship

Question 11

Material resources, means of production, the economy

Answer 11

Base

Question 12

“spiritual” phenomena: ideology, art, religion,
science and philosophy

Answer 12

Superstructure

Question 13

shared set of societal values and beliefs

Answer 13

Ideology

Question 14

dominant ideologies are always in flux (Antonio Gramsci)

Answer 14

Hegemony

Question 15

Made by profesional designers and artists

Answer 15

Mass Culture

Question 16

Made by common people for the masses

Answer 16

Popular Culture

Question 17

visual information merges with other sensory
information along with existing memories and knowledge

Answer 17

Apperception

Question 18

colors and shapes associated with sounds, smells
and feelings

Answer 18

synesthesia

Question 19

critique says vision complicit in social
oppression via surveillance & spectacle

Answer 19

occularcentrism

Question 20

“all seeing” prison design

Answer 20

panopticon

Question 21

humans internalize scrutinizing gaze

Answer 21

panopticism

Question 22

state has indirect control over citizens

Answer 22

biopower

Question 23

socialized vision; knowledge, interests, desires and social
relations between perceiver and perceived

Answer 23

visuality

Question 24

use of language and images to create meaning about
the world

Answer 24

representation

Question 25

mirroring the world

Answer 25

mimesis

Question 26

seeing images vs. seeing the world

Answer 26

mediated vision

Question 27

a theory that argues that the media shapes and frames the processes and discourse (conversation) of political communication as well as the society in which that communication takes place

Answer 27

mediatization

Question 28

touch, texture, and contour

Answer 28

haptic

Question 29

movement in muscles, tendons, joints

Answer 29

kinaesthetic

Question 30

desire to see

Answer 30

scopic drive

Question 31

desire to hear

Answer 31

invocatory drive

Question 32

power relations in constant state of flux

Answer 32

hegemony

Question 33

field exists before entry with rites of passage; individual assumes position within it (often unconsciously)

Answer 33

habitus

Question 34

(classical period) detailed description of works of art

Answer 34

ekphrasis

Question 35

separates goods from context of production for new meanings to be attached

Answer 35

commodity fetishism

Question 36

abstract ideas given concrete form

Answer 36

reification

Question 37

an exchange where topic is act of communication itself; reflexive

Answer 37

metacommunication

Question 38

goal of producing meaning as well as object

Answer 38

signifying practice

Question 39

idea of defining individual style vs. Barthes’ “death of the author” with “birth of the reader” (production to reception emphasis shift)

Answer 39

“auteur”

Question 40

through space & over time; can have many “lives”; changes in classification: transient/durable/rubbish

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circulation

Question 41

3 main ways: 1. bartered for goods or services 2. gifts 3. bought and sold for money

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exchange

Question 42

emphasis put on consuming, not production

Answer 42

“post-industrial society”

Question 43

branch of criticism/history concerned with the impression art, design and media make and how they are “read” by various individuals and social groups

Answer 43

reception aesthetics

Question 44

finite life; exchange value decreases over time

Answer 44

transient cultural objects

Question 45

no finite span; exchange value can increase

Answer 45

durable cultural objects

Question 46

(appropriation) taking existing artifacts and recoding them for new subgroup meanings

Answer 46

bricolage

Question 47

mass culture re-appropriating (co-opting) the bricolage

Answer 47

counter-bricolage

Question 48

unquestioningly identify with the dominant ideology

Answer 48

dominant-hegemonic reading

Question 49

combine various interpretations

Answer 49

negotiated reading

Question 50

completely disagree, reject or ignore

Answer 50

oppositional reading

Question 51

examines rhetorical devices (figures of speech or tropes) in images and language

Answer 51

visual poetics

Question 52

references to other works in the genre “quoting”; game with audience, reflecting their sophistication as knowledgeable viewers

Answer 52

Intertextuality

Question 53

what is shown; objects recognized by most—obvious or literal (denotation)

Answer 53

manifest content

Question 54

attached secondary meanings (connotation)

Answer 54

latent content

Question 55

quantitative analysis of data—count number of certain images, etc., not indication of qualitative value; precision & verifiability

Answer 55

Content analysis

Question 56

branch of art history which studies content

Answer 56

iconography

Question 57

“species, kind or sort”; in art, a classification or grouping of artworks that share certain iconographic elements, themes and stylistic conventions

Answer 57

genre

Question 58

study of signs within society; fashionable beginning in 1960s

Answer 58

semiotics

Question 59

material dimension of sign

Answer 59

signifier

Question 60

conceptual dimension of sign c. value of a sign comes from what it is not

Answer 60

signified

Question 61

collection of signs in linear sequence (letters

Answer 61

syntagm

Question 62

a set where each unit has something in common and is obviously different from the other units

Answer 62

paradigm

Question 63

paradigm with no easily fixed number of units

Answer 63

analog

Question 64

paradigm with fixed number of units

Answer 64

digital

Question 65

record of; a direct, causal connection (footprint)

Answer 65

index

Question 66

resembles referent in some way (realist art; photo)

Answer 66

icon

Question 67

how much the signifier describes the signified: highly motivated–very iconic; least motivated–very symbolic

Answer 67

motivation

Question 68

act of signifying; not one-way, similar to apperception

Answer 68

semiosis

Question 69

representamen gives interpretant, which “becomes” a representamen and triggers new interpretant; chain of associations (w/o fixed limits)

Answer 69

unlimited semiosis

Question 70

connotations for subgroup made to look “universal;” ideology made to look natural (or denotational)

Answer 70

myth

Question 71

interpreting texts & works of art

Answer 71

Hermeneutics