11/02/11

IDENTITY AND THE OTHER

-Creation of identities

-Concepts of otherness

-Analysis of visual example

-Who we are/ how others percieve us/ themselves

-What makes you, you? (identity creation)

-Brought up

-Where you grew up/ subjectivity (relationship to the world and other people)

-Culture- society/ religion

-Western subjectivities

-Subcultures

-Education (different education, different effect)

-Job

-How do you express this/ your identity?

-Fashion/ clothes- individual/ conformity

-Music

-Attitude (how you treat people)

-Profession

-Speech (way you speak-bbc english/ slang/ Queens english

-Identity not chosen by us or other people/ fight against world (Battleground)

-Circuit of culture- stuart hall- important theorist/ created cultural studies

-Culture = framework which we are trapped in

-Production= what you make

-Representation= sterotypes e.g. that students are drunken hooligans

-Consumption- food, clothes, ferrai

-Regulation- regulate yourself/ conform/ act/ talk to others/ what society allows you to be

-In some countries being gay is illegal

-Identity formation

-Jacques Lacan-process form pyschoanalysis

-Hommelette- person scrambled up

-Mirror stage- 6-18 months

-Sense of self (subjectivity)

Built on:

-an illusion of wholeness

-recieving views of others = own subjectivity to be fragile

-Sterotype others- Constructing the 'other'

-Policeman-bad, me good

-Subject- objectify others/ take away subjectivity/ humanity

-Identify with other group to secure our own identity

-Social constructionism