RHETOR 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Naming Rights, Illocutionary Act
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Mitchell: wants to point out constructiveness of linear perspective (of panopsky) as well as turn p on his head regarding perspective. Linear perspective remains central even in today"s age of modern art. Mitchell interested in putting perspective in perspective, and reconsidering the relationship between words and images. Capacity of naming: naming rights as important ways of setting objects in relation to other apart from separating them. Women and men < differences tied up with the naming of males and females and hence separated as objects. Stop sign dominates the image and idea of a stop sign / text and words in mugshot define criminal. Words seen as more pronounced and important than the image itself (why. Mitchell goes on scene of encounter in p) Panopsky: naming important in separating out what is noise and what is important; visual code; privileges certain aspects. Empirical isolation of vision - separation of sense of seeing from other senses (smell, taste, hearing)
