Karina Cardenas
10/24/18
Seeing Power: Chapter 5
Quote: "After watching the most of our cultural experiences sacrificed to various kinds of consumerism a generation is emerging that is learning to see through the smoke and mirrors of cultural production. This is a response accumulated over time. Indeed, we can now be said it possess a sixth sense that looks for the manipulation and the gears by which culture is produced.". (116)
Meaning: Thompson emphasizes on how generations have been effected by the cultural capitalism brainwashing and has taken over what our culture consist of. Here he explains on the cultural tolerance existing because of the new generations tired of this constant cycle has created a population aware of the capitalism manipulation.
Quote: "It is no wonder that religion continues to grow in popularity in a time when the project of a conspiracy. In either side of he political spectrum we find a population increasingly convinced that there is a conspiracy of power against them. (And they are right!)We are dealing with rapid dismantling of our capacity to truth what we hear, and in that wasteland we find the only reasonable outcome, radical paranoia " (121)
Meaning:I found it interesting that Thompson pointed out we are in a time where the truth is manipulated, which is why I picked this quote because we have so much controversy on "Fake news" epidemic. Thompson uses the term radical paranoia interestingly. When individuals are starting to question everything around them it brings a type of paranoia and a radical is a term used for individuals of parties or movements that wish to alter drastically any existing practice, institution, or social system. Thompson explains, if truth is manipulated and are radically eroding the bond between politics and society then how are we to communicate and move past this.
Seeing Power: Chapter 6
Quote: " Better to change the spaces we travel through then to try to change our minds. As we have seen we are influenced more by the people around us and the space we circulate through that we might have every imagined." (132)
Meaning: By carefully analyzing and being aware of the small spaces in between cultural capital society, we can be subjective to criticize things produced by capitalism and power. This will ensure to make communities stronger and more aware of what is going on to alter this power system. This will also make sure our generation to come are not brainwashed and not conform into the cycle.
Quote: "As opposed to an educator simple distributing his own knowledge to students, Freire proposed that knowledge comes out of a student matching her lived experience with new ideas. As opposed to knowledge comes out of student matching her lived experience with new idea. As opposed to knowledge as something that is given, it is something that is experienced and re-experienced. " (139)
Meaning : Nato explains education is a tool used to explore and scaffold on what is already learned.He states teaching is not as simple as transferring knowledge from person to person but rather a possibility to create and produce more knowledge based on experience and re-experiences of the individual.
The Interventionist: Chapter 1
Quote: In the Garden of Earthly Delights, Ortize-Torres has reworked a piece of vernacular machinery, the lawnmower, b y using Chicano low-ride aesthetics: Hydraulics, flashy paint, and shinning chrome. This small shift provides room to view this work in a very different, possibly resistant manner.
Why I choose this: Ruben Ortiz-Torres is an interventionist activist artist who uses his own cultural productions and combines it with everyday material that appears in cultural life. For example, a lawn mower is usually associated with the Mexican cultural, as a way of speaking up against this mentality and, Torress hooks up the lawn mower as a way to mock this stereotype. I found this method of art an interesting way to protest to any stereotype, it is as though he embraced the stereotype but manipulated and mocked but gave the everyday item more significance than what it is.
One Artist I associated this theme with is Elizabeth Taylor. She was able t use her own power to stand up against social and cultural power in the country. While literally the government ( Which has the most power right) denied and turned their back on helping this community of people dying by the AIDS/HIV epidemic. Taylor stepped in and made the first movement and foundation for the AIDS/HIV crisis, AmFar. I an epidemic where people were dying of this disease the country did not care due to the stereotyping involved with this disease. Even the president at the time was not concerned until 20,000 individuals lost their lives to the disease. Instead of sitting idly by, as many heterosexual people who believed AIDS only impacted gay people did, Elizabeth spoke up to get the AIDS crisis the attention it deserved.
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