ETH STD 11AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Bell Hooks, Coco Fusco, Cultural Appropriation
18 Nov 2020
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Appropriation is a process that cannot be reduced to what happens once something identifiable is removed from the place it previously occupied. Cultural appropriation is as much a political act as it is a formal operation or linguistic game. It involves taking something, often from someone, and it is rarely an isolated gesture. Seen from a semiotic perspective, the act may be interpreted as a dramatic illustration of the arbitrary relationships between identities and bodies, or between signifiers and referents. [there is] no need to hear your voice, when i can talk about you better than you can speak about yourself. And then i will tell it back to you in a new way. Tell it back to you in such a way that it has become mine, my own. I am still [the] colonizer, the speaking subject, and you are now at the center of my talk. Bell hooks, "marginality as a site of.
