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Week 5 - Lecture Notes on Media Theory

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I did my best to take notes of all the important parts of the two lectures in the fifth week, and I studied my notes before taking the exam, which helped me a lot. I hope I can help my fellow 1st year peers so that they can pass the course with a satisfactory grade :) (Note: This document only includes the fifth week lectures — make sure to get the other documents that include the remaining weeks as well!)

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Lecture 5 : Relat!onal !ty

What relat!onal !ty ?
•

!s



•
Relat!onal !ty !nd!cates relat!ons : how were late to others ,
Ourselves and to the world .




already !dea of relat!onal
!ty!nstructural!sm.IN
the
•

We have seen

based
oppos!t!on at pa!rs
structural !s!m ,
relat!ons are on and

that !s what g!ves us structures of Mean!ng .
We see those relat!ons

!n b!nary oppos!t!ons emerg!ng d!fferent levels Some of
,
on
many .




those relat!ons determ!ned by b!nary Oppos!t!ons are :




'
human vs nonhuman >
good vs ev!l
>
nature vs culture >
black vs wh!te
> '
nature vs techno / ogy boy vs
g!rl
> >
mater!al vs !n mater!al peace vs War




We about b!nary Oppos!t!ons Order to
•
th!nk
everyth!ng !n !n

Make sense .
( Th!s !s a Westen th!nk!ng pattern that weak have ) .




We also Could See Where
•
structural !st
•

th!s !n sem!ot!cs there !s

a
s!gn!f!erls!gnlsymb.at and What !t Means . The Mean!ng of

What !t Means !s always Construct ed based on these oppos!t!on at
pa!rs that are
very often h!dden .
Th!s !s the bas!e d!st!nct!on
of
creat!ng Mean!ng .




The advantages Of b!nary oppos!t!ons Clar!ty
•


Th!nk!ng !n are :
,




transparency ,
Certa!n
ty of the
presence of Someth!ng to hold onto .

, The problems
th!nk!ng !n b!nary Oppos!t!ons the absence of
of
•
:



greys s!nce there are Only blocks and Wh!tes m!ss!ng Out on
-




someth!ng else / nuanceslcomplex!t!.es presence of power ,


!mbalances Lone of the two !s always more powerful / dom!nant )
( for example Or!ental !sm the West!s super!or to the East )
: > .




•
Post Structural !sm
-
& New Mater!al!sm


What those parad!gms theory that the
•

we See !n newer of !s

ment!oned b!nary Oppos!t!ons start to be deconstructed When we

real!ze that the Word !s much More Complex and that there
" "
!s a cr!t!cal perspect!ve from the M!nor!t!es !n the
pa!rs .




( deconstruct!on & d!fference )



Another th!ng Contemporary med!c! theory ( both !n
•

we See !n


post
-
structural !sm that defys these b!nary Oppos!t!ons and !n new
Mater!al!sm that starts to
propose new Ways of th!nk!ng about
relat!ons ) that the between nature and culture !s
!s
oppos!t!on
no
longer be!ng Made Therefore,
. we often speak about nature Cultura
Th!nk about the !dea of
cyborg s where human and non human

Comb!ned and mashed to the where !t's longer
are
po!nt no


poss!ble to Make a d!st!nct!on .
AISO th!nk ,
of Bruno Latour Who

argued that have th!nk assamblage of
we to
everyth!ng as an

actants .
>
So the d!fference between human and non human

relat!ons are thought d!fferent Iy , !n terms of complex networks of

people th!ngs Concepts
, , ,
d!scourse . Also ,
the mater!al and !mmater!.at

start to become part of that b!g network .

, The advantagesare.ve get Complex !ty
•

More , more nuance ,
More

d!fference and d!vers!ty .




The d!sadvantagesare.!t M!ght somet!mes be amb!g!ous
•


Vague , ,



too Complex or d!ff!cult .




•
Edouard Gl!ssant (1928-2011)

•

He was
poet
a and novel!st , but he also Wrote books of theory
as a
ph!losopher .
He was also a Cr!t!c . He worked !n the US

and France for or!g!nally Mart!n!que
along t!me . He was from .




He " "
named Poet!cs
"
Wrote books Carr!bean D!scourse and
"
of Relat!on ( he has two other books ) ,
>
the t!tles of h!s
books already !nd!cate h!s of hol!st!c &
that
way th!nk!ng !s

relat!onal .




An !mportant po!nt related background of Gl!ssant 's
*

to the

NĞ gr! tvde
"
Movement
"
works was the 11930s -
1960s ) , Gl!ssa.!nt

clearly d!st!ngu!shed h!mself from th!s h!stor!cal Movement wh!ch

was led by A!mee [ e-sa!re ( Mart!n!que ) , Leopold Senghor ( Senegal )
and ke!n Damas ( Gu!ana ) and also a few women named

Susanne ( e- sa!re and Paulette & Jeanna Nardal ( Mart!n!que ) ,




No!r
"
These L!etud!ant
"

people Started a journal named
( The Blache Student )
" "

and d!rected the!r Movement to Creat!ng
a
!dent!ty wh!ch they
black , Saw essent!al for alt the black

d!aspora ( not d!aspora herhang! b!r ulusun dışında
. : : ana
yurtları
azınlık olarak yaşamaları , kopuntu ) What they emphas!zes on

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