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AAD 251 Terminology Week 3
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 2
04/21/2010

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Mirror
Definition
Developmental Phase

Self (Ego)
Different (Not-Self or Other)
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Alienation
Definition
Self and image are the same

Image is ideal

Self and image are not same

A split between what they are physically capable of doing and what they see and imagine themselves to be
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The Gaze
Definition
A gaze is a look or stare often with eagerness or desire.
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Discourse
Definition
Body of knowledge that both defines and limits what can be said about something

They are specific to particular social and historical contexts

Change over time

Discourses cover broad social domains and produce certain kinds of subjects and knowledge

We occupy to varying degrees the subject positions defined within a broad array of discourses
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Power/ Knowledge
Definition
Describes the ways that power impacts what gets to count as knowledge in a given social context

How knowledge systems within that society are caught up in power relations

Power and knowledge are inseparable

Concepts of truth are relative to the network of power and knowledge systems of a given society
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Biopower
Definition
Describes the processes through which institutional practices define, measure, categorize, and construct the body

Refers to ways in which power is enacted on the body through regulating its activity

Processes and practices produce, (rather than negate), particular kinds of knowledge about bodies

Produces bodies with particular kinds of meanings and capacities
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Panopticism
Definition
The panopticon is an architectural model, originally for a prison, that can be seen as a metaphor for the way in which power works

Power is most effective when it is invisible and unverifiable

The point of panopticon is the structure of surveillance, whether it is active or not
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Binary Oppositions
Definition
Man vs women

Marked -"The other"
Unmarked"The norm"
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Orientalism
Definition
“Western Cultures conceive THE EAST”
The West – “Civilized vs. Reserved”
The East – “Barbaric vs. Erotic”
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Auro
Definition
Connotative authentic experience.
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