Reflections on Transparency
Modernism - Transparency
Post Modernity - Mirror, seeing self reflected
- Recurrent metaphor - mirrors/ reflection
- Mise en abyme - infinity
- Return to 'The Enlightenment Project' thinkers moved away from Paradymn/ view of world to explore other options - scientist in god - like place
- Age of Classification - Trying to arrive at Truth
- Micro grapha - Robert Hooke - series of drawings of body through manifying glass - come up with cell
- Utopian material was sheet glass - Robert Hughes 'Shock of the New'
- Le Corbusier - transparent building, opening it up to light
- surface is covered in ornament - point of throwing ornament away to get to structure
- 'The International style' - ornament is crime, form follows function, machines for living, truth to materials'
- Utopian - agreement to live similarly - final - fixed way to live - one size fits all
- Structuralism - not architecture - method vs enquiry which preceeds from premise cultural activity as a science
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Concept - signified
- Sound-image - signifer
- Zebra - image, word, sound - need the concept/ idea first to agree culturally
- Accuring formilliarity to terms agreed - confluent
- Parole - individual speech practice
- Langue - a communal route - system or structure
- Variety within language - cut through to more structural
- Ultimate structure - existed in our brains proir to history
- Claude Levi Strauss - anthropologist - what was link between the stories, rituals
- "myths are versions of basic themes"
- Looking at all things that one subject is not common element of all cultures - structure embedded within our brain all along
- binary oppositions - universal structures - constrast between two exclusive terms - distinctions as fundamental to all language and thought
Post Structualism
- Post Modernism comes from a lot of it's theories
- Theory + structuralism = one size fits all ?
- Meaning isn't out there or transparent
- Jacques Derrida - Theory of Deconstruction - Mentioned in a later lecture
- Structuralism can been seen to impose it's own reading upon a text - objectivity up for question
- Trapped looking at ourselves, imposing our own meaning
- Levi Strauss offering an escape but just just follows his particular views - superior knowledge, wisdom
- Preparing views of own experiences not objectivity
- Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
- Alice and Humpty - master of the meaning - power - authority - excludes all other views - can only mirror
- Theory of nothing can go faster than light but today proved it might be possible
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