for the pic you'd have to ask Barbara Kruger.
As far as the "one's own mind" idea. That went out the window with the
invention of cultural studies or at least I thought. Not that everyone has to
buy that dismissal but at least a nod to contemporary criticism (everyone from
Zizek, Lacan, Stuart Hall to Louis Althusser) might be appropriate. In a nut
shell, the enlightenment idea that we belong to ourselves (as free subjects) or
that somehow we have an inner subjectivity that is beyond the influence of
culture and therefore pure and untainted, was overturned pretty effectively I
think in 20th century media and cultural criticism. Of course not everyone is
convinced, but I think that going back to this idea that we have initially
"pure" minds that are somehow corrupted by media (or whatever other cultural
form) is regressive and takes us back to the old idea of "nature" vs "nurture".
Anyway, one point of media criticism is to see how the media acts as ideology
and subjugates viewers - but not in order
to retrieve "our own minds" but to take an active role in detecting
ideological devices and how they work on us and the effects they have on the
world. The idea that we own ourselves neglects that our every meaningful
interaction with the world is always already part of a shared language that we
ourselves didn't create. We are collages of external things taken in and
internalized, but we certainly can take an active role in this process - this
doesn't mean that we're being more authentic or pure, just that we're being
active participants in the making of us. Just some thoughts.
mark
Message: 4
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:40:50 +0200
From: Andreas Maria Jacobs <aj...@xs4all.nl>
Hi Marc
Nice picture!
Expressing the shizo-state of mind,
scattered and torned to pieces like mine...
May I use it for Friction Research Issue 4?
Best
Andreas Maria Jacobs
w: http://www.nictoglobe.com
w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl
On Jun 3, 2011, at 16:58, mark cooley <flawed...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
Friction Research Issue #4
>
29 May 2011
>
Essay:
>
Saskia Isabella Maria Korsten
>
"I believe that in order to "reclaim one's mind" one should be able to
critically assess the influence media have on one's perception of the world."
>
>
What "one's mind" is there to reclaim?
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7rmzrFjs71qzuxe3o1_400.jpg
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