CSCT 1CS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Roland Barthes, Denotation, Refugees Of The Syrian Civil War

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 1CS3
• Professor: Joanne Leow

Document Summary

Ien ang and chris barker definitions of culture. More than one meaning to word that is not static. The conceptual maps or mental representations we carry around in our heads. The translation of our shared conceptual map into common language. Signifier (meaning or idea implied by signifier). Practices by which signs are strung together. Meaning can never finally be fixed (hall). First level - the obvious/simple descriptive level of meaning. Mythology - chain of related concepts that members of a culture understand. Group of statements which provide a language for talking about a particular topic and a particular historical moment. About language and practice - a term that attempts to encompass both what we say and what we do. More concerned with power and knowledge as a constitutive of meaning than with language. A way of introducing history to the study of representation. Things meant something, and were trueonly within a particular historical context.