Blog #4: To binary or not to binary- that is a question

In class, we discuss how our realities have been constructed by forces far beyond pur control by politics, social norms and mores, gender roles, decorum, etc. When we fall into these binary constructs, how does that impact our identities? Is it possible to live outside of the binary and be socially accepted? How do we straddle the divide and also stay inwardly true to oursevles?

Blog #3.5: To Veg or Not to Veg

Please respond to these questions....
Why does Baudrillard include this chapter on animals in this book?
How does it relate to this course?
What did you take away from the chapter and the viewing?

Blog #3: Moving ourselves into new contexts

At this juncture, we have covered much material as it relates to our developing subjectivities in different spaces. 'Apparate' or secondspace yourself into a context that has yet to exist and consider how your subjectivity would be vulnerable to either stabilizing or destabilizing in this context. In brief, invent a context you've never been in, describe based on what you know about yourself, how you might respond, and describe the visible and invisible sociopolitical messages that the given space tries to inscribe onto you. You can use each others' contexts if you like em'. Go play!

Urgent! Please read about our WIKIS

http://placesspacesandposers.pbwiki.com/?pwd=qpChauLRdJ

Please use this address now...

password is: places


and add new page
you can also click on my WIKI play and it will take you to it and then link to my new page

Class this Tuesday

Please send me your WIKI links for Tuesday and don't forget to intregrate in your reflections (which are also due Tuesday) the suggestions I made last time around. If you forgot, then please check the Blog page.

See you then!

Reflections for Events

Please keep in mind that when you write your reflections that you consider in detail how the space you inhabit contributes to identity construction through the tools used by the rhetors in that space. In your reflections I would like you to describe the surroudings, the spatial layout, but then want you to focus intently on any one or two ways that discourse, the spatial make-up, and/or identity artifacts affect the identities in that space. You should reflect carefully on course notes in your write-up. Also, consider the sociopolitical messages that come through in a given space.

Blog #2: Reflect on how your current identities have been influenced by any particular popular culture...read below

Applying concepts from Baudrillard, Visual Rhetoric, class discussions, observations, your WIKIS and course readings, reflect, by selecting one popluar culture that has "SUCKED" you in, how your identity has been infleunced. Consider the space(s) you inhabit when you participate in that popluar culture(such as a sporting event, or a dance club...), the logos present, colors, your senses, presence, and the tools that rhetors have used to seduce and construct identity. What sociopolitical ideologies impact those spaces?