An Example of a New Black Aesthetic

Seinfield Group Response

My favorite assignment all semester had to be the group project! I loved my team members and for the first time EVER, I was included in a group that where everyone carried their own weight. Although I didn't speak much during the presentation (my fear of public speaking is horrible!)I, like the rest of my group, participated in almost every aspect of the project. We all decided to split up the project into several different parts and then split into teams of two to research and study up on each section. My expertise was in the conclusion area. We wanted to present Seinfield as the "other" in a normal/traditional society. In order to do so, we used the bizarro episode, where Elaine finds a different group of friends that seem to except her in the beginning but soon realize that she doesn't truly fit into their group. Here's the clip below:




Bcause Elaine was apart of the "other" she couldn't fit into a regular group, yet she fit comfortably with the "other" group (Jerry, Kramer). Within the closing argument of the presentation I also contributed to located specific passages from the Barker book. We decided to use the section on realism vs. melodrama to try to catgeorize Seinfield in a specifc group. I also had discussion questions for our group to pose to the class.

sex as art

Foucault

Ars erotica-China, Japan, India, Roman Empire

Scientia sexualis- Western Europe, UK, U.S.

Idea of Sex changing over time
economically useful
energy-order-class is everything/power
discourse-discipline b/cuz thats just the way it is/biology says...
discourse of sexuality keeps un in order


East-sex was/is art
West-sex is to be studied/ biology

"Shakespeare in Love"

Derrida

~sign is always unstable. Arbitrary depending on other factors. The sign always depends on another therefore not absolute presence.

Saussure

Semiotics

Signifier<-Sign->Signified
visual thing mental/conception of these things

Saussure argues that the relationship between signifier and signified are arbitrary relationship depending on conext.

Binary relationship
big/small
cat/dog
fat/thin
white/black


no sign exist alone/always has an opposite