COMS 313 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Intersubjectivity, General Idea, Stamen
26 Sep 2016
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Concept: something conceived in the mind; a thought, notion. A general idea covering many similar things derived from study of particular instances. Concepts are tools of intersubjectivity: they facilitate discussion on basis of a common language. Neither simple nor adequate, they distort, unfix, and inflect the object. Referring to images or films as texts". Assumptions, including the idea that images have, or produce, meaning, and that they promote such analytical activities as reading. Neither texts nor images yield their meanings immediately. To turn the image into a piece of language. Its casual use as a word is the resulting reluctance to discuss meaning" as an academic issue, its over-extended use: ought to be trained to choose and justify one of the meanings of meaning". Concepts are, and always have been, important areas of debate. Dogmatic: inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true (opinionated, assertive, inflexible) Concepts are never simply descriptive; they are also programmatic and normative.
