ENGL 275 Study Guide - Final Guide: Postcolonialism, Marshall Mcluhan, Media Studies
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*said and spivak helped create the eld of postcolonial studies. *said and morrison often get misread for hating western culture. *hall doesn"t agree with williams or with adorno. *mcluhan"s ideas helped launch media studies but he has the north american take that technology is going to solve everything (less interested in culture/class) wanted to understand how new forms of communication impact how we understand reality. *kittler is also a major gure in media studies (european version of mcluhan, pessimist unlike mcluhan), pioneering media archeology. *latour was the rst to study scientists as subjects. *mcpherson: digital humanities (critique of whiteness + media archeology) Orientalism = a way of thinking about the east (a worldview) that ends up being inscribed in stu like movies (how the west understands the non. Ontological (the philosophical study of being) distinction between east and west. Not just physical, they can"t occupy the same space in the imagination. Language helps create reality, like foucault and williams said.
