SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Roland Barthes, Usain Bolt, Physiognomy
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In 1972, it was a year of decriminalization of suicide and prostitution. People go to great length to belong in any type of community/category: norms are powerful b/c they mark belonging or rejection, and they are intentionally subverted, to not subvert would be to not want to belong. Semiotics: the process of interpretation of images the understanding of the mechanics of representations: to be a semiotician is to understand how pictures and words are signs that are read and seen in a particular way. Denotative meaning: literal, descriptive meaning, no context, normative character, no need to interpret it: picture of black man with writing on it ojs magazine cover. Through the 19th century a number of scienti c techniques were developed to identify and deviant types. These techniques were in many ways a forerunner of the eugenics movement in the late 19th and 20th century.
