Sunday, November 21, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
American Psycho
“There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman some kind of abstraction but there is no real me only an entity something illusory.”
In our lass class discussion we touched on the Film American Psycho.
We once again discussed the difference between self-identity and social identity.
Self-identity is the verbal conceptions we hold about ourselves, and our emotional identification with those self-descriptions.
Social Identity is the expectations and opinions that others have of us.
The subject (Patrick Bateman) in this movie seems to have control of his self-identity. He has constructed an “idea” of who he is and wants to be. He represents himself as a materialistic, self absorbed and shallow human being. But acknowledges there is not real side to him.
“There is no real me there is an illusion”
In our lass class discussion we touched on the Film American Psycho.
We once again discussed the difference between self-identity and social identity.
Self-identity is the verbal conceptions we hold about ourselves, and our emotional identification with those self-descriptions.
Social Identity is the expectations and opinions that others have of us.
The subject (Patrick Bateman) in this movie seems to have control of his self-identity. He has constructed an “idea” of who he is and wants to be. He represents himself as a materialistic, self absorbed and shallow human being. But acknowledges there is not real side to him.
“There is no real me there is an illusion”
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Marx
“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being but the contrary, their social being determines their consciousness.” (Marx)
This week we also touched on Marx.
Super Structure
Art
Culture
Politics
Production
Base
We saw Alec Baldwin’s monologue in the film Glengarry Glen Ross.
Going back to a post I had written about before the ideas in this monologue parallel to our readings of Baudrillard, The System of Objects. This also parallels the ideas of Self identity and social identity. Self identity is the verbal conceptions we hold about ourselves and our emotional identification with those self descriptions. Social identity is the expectation and opinions that others have on us.
Blake: You got leads. Mitch & Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them. You can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit, *you are* shit, hit the bricks pal, and beat it, 'cause you are going *out*.
Shelley Levene: The leads are weak.
Blake: "The leads are weak." The fucking leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business fifteen years...
Dave Moss: What's your name?
Blake: Fuck you. That's my name.
[Moss laughs]
Blake: You know why, mister? 'Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. *That's* my name.
In this scene Blake, (Alic Baldwin) is explaining to the real estate agents how they have become nothing because they are not being successful in closing their leads. In attempt to motivate the salesman’s he explains that if “you can’t close shit, you are shit”. When one of the salesman asks for his name he mocks him by saying “you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. *That's* my name.”
The role of todays society has become very communistic.
We live in a world where " Cash rules everything around me"
Its a cynical world and we do in fact live in business of competitors.
This week we also touched on Marx.
Super Structure
Art
Culture
Politics
Production
Base
We saw Alec Baldwin’s monologue in the film Glengarry Glen Ross.
Going back to a post I had written about before the ideas in this monologue parallel to our readings of Baudrillard, The System of Objects. This also parallels the ideas of Self identity and social identity. Self identity is the verbal conceptions we hold about ourselves and our emotional identification with those self descriptions. Social identity is the expectation and opinions that others have on us.
Blake: You got leads. Mitch & Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them. You can't close the leads you're given, you can't close shit, *you are* shit, hit the bricks pal, and beat it, 'cause you are going *out*.
Shelley Levene: The leads are weak.
Blake: "The leads are weak." The fucking leads are weak? You're weak. I've been in this business fifteen years...
Dave Moss: What's your name?
Blake: Fuck you. That's my name.
[Moss laughs]
Blake: You know why, mister? 'Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. *That's* my name.
In this scene Blake, (Alic Baldwin) is explaining to the real estate agents how they have become nothing because they are not being successful in closing their leads. In attempt to motivate the salesman’s he explains that if “you can’t close shit, you are shit”. When one of the salesman asks for his name he mocks him by saying “you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an eighty thousand dollar BMW. *That's* my name.”
The role of todays society has become very communistic.
We live in a world where " Cash rules everything around me"
Its a cynical world and we do in fact live in business of competitors.
Chapter 7
Chapter 7: Imitation and Gender Insubordination
Binary is intelligible.
Construction of what it means to be man/woman is oppressive.
The history of itself is in fact influx.
Sexuality, Gender, and sex, are not exclusive.
The representation of something always has access.
The Midiam is the message.
The way you receive the message already bias your way of in taking that message.
T.V is what creates our reality.
News is represented as “reality”.
In class we watched a few scenes from the film Team America World Police. This animated film was used as a satire representation of created clichés and stereotypes on American and Politics in many other popular big budget films. The title of the movie comes from political criticism that U.S one-sidedly tries to control or “police” the world. We also see the current representation and stereotypes of the Middle Eastern other.
Binary is intelligible.
Construction of what it means to be man/woman is oppressive.
The history of itself is in fact influx.
Sexuality, Gender, and sex, are not exclusive.
The representation of something always has access.
The Midiam is the message.
The way you receive the message already bias your way of in taking that message.
T.V is what creates our reality.
News is represented as “reality”.
In class we watched a few scenes from the film Team America World Police. This animated film was used as a satire representation of created clichés and stereotypes on American and Politics in many other popular big budget films. The title of the movie comes from political criticism that U.S one-sidedly tries to control or “police” the world. We also see the current representation and stereotypes of the Middle Eastern other.
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