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Main focus is the Phoenix transition and placement on earth as well as what she does and says
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Response to "The Kitchen of Meaning" by Roland Barthes from The Semiotic challenge
We are trained as humans to automatically have a connotation to everything we see, hear, or read. Even though, majority of things aren't always what meets the eye judgement always plays a part in the development or process of "reading" someone as Barthes refers to it. The way someone is perceived could be merely by a status symbol, their appearance, or a subtle action without the person that is making the perception even knowing them or being within close distance to them to at least get a feel for who they are. It's just as simple to use those things to upload a whole profile on someone by just "reading" them. This reminds me of the movie "Date Night" starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey. The two actors play a married couple where they go on a routine date night where they play a game to look at a couple at a table and "read" them to develop a lifestyle they see fit by dissecting in between the lines. A message within something will always be directly telling you something where there is obviously a main point trying to be made, but then there's the part that forces you to go in depth and pull apart and find morals, ideas, and significance. In "The Kitchen of Meaning" Barthes states, "To decipher the world's signs always means to struggle with a certain innocence of objects" (Barthes 158). You see something and you don't want to question it because it is what it is and you know that, so the need to associate it with more is suppressed. Furthermore taking the English language for granted by shortening it and not using it as it should in the standard form because people are comfortable with the naturalness of the language that the true complexity in the standard English is not embraced as it should be. However, you notice it when comparing it to another language that English is not as simple as people that it comes natural to make it seem. Therefore, the message that is truly trying to be pushed through may not always be received. Signs in throughout the world some simplistic some complex, all leading to the development of ideas, morals, beliefs, and systems despite who may agree and who may not, whether they are wrong or right.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Response to Michael Wesch's YouTube video "The Machine is Us/ ing Us"
Wesch is saying that using the web or the use of the web is a form of corruption. In the sense that we allows it to consume us and become the basis of our everyday life. In the video it was shown that digital text can be altered to a great extent and eveything we write and type into the web is strengthening the "machine " which is the whole system of the web and it's database. Everything we search is not from the internet,but everything we as a human race has provided to the internet it is the people whoever that may be that allows for this development. Also what can be trusted on the web when everything can be altered, movable and fixed at any time. Majority of websites said to be trusted are those with copyrights, editor's and authors; therefore having sustainable evidence that the websites information can be trusted to be real factual information. I definitely agree with a lot of these points made by Wesch. His idea that we are the main force or blood line for the functioning of the web. It doesn't seem that he is saying that the web is a completely terrible source or creation, but people need to monitor how they use it as well as rethink a lot of things and understand that every site we visit, every photo uploaded, every status, or tagged photo or post is a contribution to the machine using us.
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