Posted in A, tagged ads, advertising, art, artists, barthes, baudrillard, bisexual, business, buying, buzzwords, Connotation, consumer, desire, economics, economy, Foucault, freud, freudian, gay, government, graphic artists, graphic arts, homosexual, homosexuality, hooks, hypocrisy, jung, jungian, lesbian, life, marx, marxism, money, neomarxism, postmodern, postmodernism, poststructural, poststructuralism, profit, psychoanalysis, psychology, same-sex, sell, selling, slogans, society, sociology, spiritual, supply and demand, synchronicity, wants on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Advertising Although the primary objective of commercial advertising is to sell goods and services, this is accomplished in a complex manner.
Social theorists directly or indirectly influenced by Karl Marx usually say that advertising creates a false or illusory relationship between the consumer and the producer.
Freudian-based sociological analyses suggest that when buying, the consumer enters into [...]
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Aesculapius Possibly a Greek mortal around 1200 BCE who, like Heracles, became deified.
In Homer’s Illiad he is described as “the blameless physician.”
His cult was centered in Epidaurus and emphasized cure through a prototype of contemporary psychoanalysis.
The poets Hesiod and Pindar speak of Aesculapius as the son of Zeus [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Aliens, anthropology, archaeology, atlantis, Carbon Dating, education, ETs, Foucault, freud, history, michel foucault, postmodern, postmodernism, poststructuralism on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Archaeology [Greek: archaiologia = ancient history] A relatively new science concerned with the excavation and analysis of artifacts, texts, structures and organic material (such as skeletons) from past civilizations.
The birth of archaeology is often associated with J. J. Winckelmann’s Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums (History of Ancient Art), published in 1764.
Carbon dating is often upheld [...]
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Posted in B, tagged baudrillard, Connotation, Denotation, gulf war, hyperreality, postmodern, poststructural, signified, signifier, signs, simulacra, symbols, war on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Baudrillard, Jean A. (1929-2007) French postmodern theorist who has become increasingly popular within academic circles.
Following figures like Marshal McLuhan and Roland Barthes, Baudrillard asks whether we are able to draw a precise line between media hype and reality.
In The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1995) he discusses the Gulf War as a “media event.”
This [...]
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Comparative Religion The academic study of world religions to determine differences, similarities and points of equivalence.
Most scholars cite Max Müller (1823-1900), Sir E. B. Tylor (1832-1917) and Sir J. G. Frazer (1854-1941) as the most important figures in the birth of comparative religion.
But this can be misleading because as far back as Xenophanes (6th century [...]
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Counter-discourse The French philosopher and social historian Michel Foucault contends that every social discourse which involves a politically generated truth-claim encounters a counter-discourse that challenges the original discourse’s legitimacy.
Truth for Foucault often seems nothing more than the outcome of a struggle between competing discourses. Thus power produces or creates notions of ‘truth.’
This is reminiscent of but [...]
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Denotation In the general sense, denotation means representing by signs or symbols. In semiotics it means affixing a specific, fixed meaning to a sign, in contrast to connotation.
Some like Jacques Derrida and his followers suggest that the semiotic sense of denotation is for the most part chimerical and that most everything is connotation.
One may try [...]
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Derrida, Jacques (1930-2004) Influential French philosopher of language born in Algeria who taught at the Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. » Connotation, Denotation, Marx (Karl)
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Discourse The poststructuralist thinker Michel Foucault popularized the idea of discourse as an essentially political utterance within a system of power relations. For Foucault, a given discourse “creates” a specific truth. This truth is relative to the network it emerges from. In postmodernism, discourses may be vocal, written or gestures.
Discourses are also understood in terms [...]
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DSM-IV-TR (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Version IV with Text Revisions) This is the most current manual developed by the American Psychiatric Association, one used by health professionals to classify various psychological disorders, generally referred to as mental illnesses.
The DSM-IV-TR is used around the world, along with two other manuals (The ICD-10 [...]
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