I found this one a little strange, since it wasn't so much a topic but instead related to someones work and the effect it had.
We looked at McLuhan's law of media. It states every medium Extends, Reverses, Retrieves and Obsolesces.
One I remember is a Car. Extends - Speed. Reverses - Pollution. Retrieves - Age of Knights. Obsoleces - Horse.
My example would be a console. Although I'm not sure if it will be right.
Gaming Consoles: Extends - Entertainment, Vision. Reverses - Surroundings. Retrieves - Decisions - Focus. Obsolces - Board games.
I think that is correct.
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Saturday, 5 November 2011
Structuralism
This time we were focusing on structuralism and the binary opposition model.
With this we looked at opposites, for example we had:
Life - Death
light - Dark
Land - Sea/Sky
male - female
white - black
human - non human/cyborg
These weren't fully opposite, since males and females share more in common than have differences.
One I thought was quite remarkable, which I surprisingly had never heard of, was GOD and Devil. They were considered opposites and they also shared a sort of word play upon their spelling. God with an extra o is Good and Devil without the D is Evil.
They also had binary opposites in Films such as Frakenstein. Light - Dark, Sane - Crazy, Danger - Safety.
Binary opposites are used mostly in films to help exaggerate and highlight how drastic something is. An example that comes to mind is the Simpsons Movie. He states that he wants 10,000 tough guys and 10,000 soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher. Soft and Tough = Binary Opposites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDUR7YBSZ8o
With this we looked at opposites, for example we had:
Life - Death
light - Dark
Land - Sea/Sky
male - female
white - black
human - non human/cyborg
These weren't fully opposite, since males and females share more in common than have differences.
One I thought was quite remarkable, which I surprisingly had never heard of, was GOD and Devil. They were considered opposites and they also shared a sort of word play upon their spelling. God with an extra o is Good and Devil without the D is Evil.
They also had binary opposites in Films such as Frakenstein. Light - Dark, Sane - Crazy, Danger - Safety.
Binary opposites are used mostly in films to help exaggerate and highlight how drastic something is. An example that comes to mind is the Simpsons Movie. He states that he wants 10,000 tough guys and 10,000 soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher. Soft and Tough = Binary Opposites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDUR7YBSZ8o
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