- Graeber, David. “ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF GIANT PUPPETS: broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture.”
In this assessment, I still agree with the quote, “In my own experience, editors and most reporters in this country are inherently suspicious of protests… They seem willing to cover artificial events only when constituted by proper authorities.” The proper authorities are the ones who pay to have their views taken into account, the same authorities that are never seen attending a march because things are the way they want it to be and don’t care about anyone else. It is totally corrupt and having a first hand source attest to that justs shows how selfish people can be.
- Smith, Zadie. “Find Your Beach.” The New York Review of Books, October 23, 2014.
I really love this quote, “Find your beach even if it is not actually there. Create this beach inside yourself. Carry it with you wherever you go” I personally relate to this article. It is so easy to lose yourself being busy especially in a fast paced city, but if you find your beach AKA your happiness and carry that inside you then it keeps you grounded. I still think this reading was about your happiness in a deep sense by analyzing the billboard advertisement for beer.
- Howe, Susan. “Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives.” People are naturally inquisitive and curious, I know I prefer to see something in person than over a screen even if both present the same information, interacting in person is a different experience. “As the evolve, electronic technologies are radically transforming the way we read write and remember. The nature of archival research is in flux; we need to see and touch object and documents.” Seeing a picture of a photo or of an old legal document or something like that on a computer or phone screen is never the same as to seeing it or examining it in person where you can engage more than just one sense.
- Mitchell, Timothy. “Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order.”
More people got to see what other cultures of places they may not know are like, how they compare and contrast to theirs etc, “The new apparatus of representation, particularly the world exhibitions, gave a central place to the representation of the non-western world, and several studies have pointed out the importance of this construction of otherness to the manufacture of national identity and imperial purpose.” What I understood from this is, there was such an emphasis on western culture, either for their progress or achievements, but this gave light to the cultures that were solidified and established.
- Milner, Ryan C. “The World Made Meme.”
“Internet memes depend on collective creation, circulation, and transformation.” Having had my fair share of involvence with memes, it is true that without media to circulate or edit memes then the quality would not be as good as they usually are. You can have hundreds or thousands of people seeing your creation and then they can tweak it to get the full effect you were trying to get from it. Memes bring people together, honestly.
- Milner, Ryan C. “The World Made Meme.”
Memes, are like tattoos, there are many that are similar, even copied without artist’s permission but tattooing is all about inspiration, “The image- composited from a character…resonates in the blank stare of its subject and dream like, glitch art space behind him, which creates a larger, more opaque version of him.. The blackness behind the figure birthing asymmetrical neon green, blue and red lines.” People are inspired by others’ work and own tattoos to create your own, tattoos are considered an art, memes are essentially the same thing, wouldn’t that by definition make them too art?
- Milner, Ryan C. “The World Made Meme.”
Anyone who makes a meme is in it to go viral, they want to have bragging rights and credit that their meme made the most people laugh or relate to it. In order to do that, people need to make a meme that will be understood by as many as they can, which the Kanye West was the perfect opportunity to do so. This is seen throughout chapter 1, but an example is “Imma let you finish” entered the american pop vernacular. It was birthed in a mass media moment, when hip-hop artist Kanye West took the stage at MTV’S annual VMAs.”
- Jackson, Michelle Lauren. “We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction to GIFs.” Teen Vogue.
“If there’s one thing the internet thrives on its hyperbole and the overrepresentation of black people in GIFing everyone’s daily crises plays up enduring perceptions and stereotypes about black expression.” I can see where the author is coming from and what she means, but just as many black people create and even repost these gifs, is it okay only when they do it or should nobody be allowed to do that, but it’s okay for white people to be over exaggerated? Blackface to my understanding is like if someone is purposely making themselves of the black race with either makeup or something and talking bad about them, which isn’t the case, in the gifs she references the people aren’t hiding behind anything but relating themselves to the other person instead of making a divide.
- Barthes, Roland. “Chapter 6.” In RHETORIC OF THE IMAGE, 70-73.
The descriptions of photographs are hard to execute because most photographs have a message and it needs to be seen not described. “(yellow, green, red) of the poster; it’s signified is Italy”
“No doubt the photograph involves a certain arrangement of the scene.”
“Literal message…symbolic message.”
As a photographer I 100% agree with this, I was taught to take into account every single object in the frame and how a tiny sign could affect the picture, and how to properly convey your voice/ message in the art that is photography.
- Schwartzenberg, Susan. “The Personal Archive as Historical Record.” 20 (April 2005).
Every family is essentially an archive. Humans are usually sentimental and respectful of their own personal history and keeping old photographs and records helps keep that old history alive. “They were asked to put together family photographs, albums, records and documents- anything they thought important to tell their story,” each individual person has their own stories and then combine a family of stories together each interpretation is different, the traditions of a family and their stories can leave a legacy, shining through for many generations.