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International Seminar on Contemporary Topics - Coggle Diagram
International Seminar on Contemporary Topics
Class One: The work of Representation
What is representation? Well, representation is the process of wich meaning is produced and exchange between receptors, or individuals of a culture.
The representation happens through the use o images, words, sounds e other ways of communication to give meaning to something and spread it to someone else
Represention, in that way, is responsible to cultivate a culture about something. Culture is about shared meanings.
System: concept > translated language > meaning > sign > representation
Saussure: semiotic
Foucault: discursive
Class Two: the poetics and politics of exhibiting
represention on museuns as an order to archive languages
Museu da Antiga Estação de Canoas e arquivos da Casa dos Rosas
Class Three: recording reality
documentary: ônibus 174
“To raise the question of representing the Other is, therefore, to reopen endlessly the fundamental issue of science and art; documentary and fiction; universal and personal; objectivity and subjectivity; masculine and feminine; outsider and insider.” (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989)
Class Four: representing difference
questions and thoughts about the representation presented on the documentary
Class five: Gender and sexuality
stereotypes: "The struggle over meaning matters in films over gross mis-representations
in the mis-reading or understanding of a historical event"
Sexualization of the black women
intersectional representations
Class Six: Exhibiting masculinities
the framing of masculinities within plurality as opposed to reductive conceptions of a real or singular masculinity.
Arguments about masculinity drawn from sociological, historical and
cultural analysis assert that masculinity is not a fixed and unitary category.
