READINGS: Chapter 5 and 6 Seeing Power in Spaces pg 107-146
Seeing Power Chapter 1 Nomads pgs. 25-60 Interventionists
ON THE BLOG: 2
quotes from each chapter and choose one artist/group from the readings
or elsewhere that you feel helps illustrate some of the themes about
power, social and cultural capital.
Seeing Power Chapter 5
- She argues instead that war imagery can often feed the appetite for violence by ripping the subject from its context, and making its representation a facile (effortless) consumption.
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We see that the doodles given to us by a friend can mean more to us than the art on the walls of a museum. .. Everyday people are beginning to understand at a very intuitive level that power uses culture to manipulate them and, conversely, that moments are free of that coercion are uniquely special.
Seeing Power Chapter 6
- The idea of becoming allows us to think of ourselves not as static isolated identities, but instead, ever malleable potentialities. Constantly shifting.
- What is most crucial about transversality is that each person gain a sense of agency. Tranversality: A property of two intersecting submanifolds, where at every intersection point, their separate tangent spaces at that point together generate the tangent space of the ambient manifold at that point.
The interventionists Nomads
- Collaboration is absolutely different from the other, just as each collection of individuals is unique.
- I think we take risks with pleasure, we let it creep in and we also take it away, or call it into question.
“No one man should have all that power.”
Kanye West, is culture. As the most innovative man in hip-hop since Afrika Bambaataa, Kanye West
as a producer transcended the genre. As an artist, his persistence in
resolving the multitude of issues with his own life and with
understanding the nature of how unfairly the universe operates in sound
and rhyme transcended music.Kanye West has set the new cultural shift. Live fast. Die young.
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