Thursday, June 08, 2006
Questions
1) Can you explain a bit more the equivalent reporduction and give some examples of how to use it, I don't understand the expression well.
2) I also have so difficulties understanding why the watcher is more powerful than the watched.
3) Can you develop a bit more on why Lacan said that the gaze is objet petit a?
4) Concerning wrestling as the Theatre of Suffering are you talking about their physical expressions ilustrating the pain or the fatc that the person who suffer is the most important character? For the carnivalesque part is it because of the excess because I cant relate it to the temporary trangression?
2) I also have so difficulties understanding why the watcher is more powerful than the watched.
3) Can you develop a bit more on why Lacan said that the gaze is objet petit a?
4) Concerning wrestling as the Theatre of Suffering are you talking about their physical expressions ilustrating the pain or the fatc that the person who suffer is the most important character? For the carnivalesque part is it because of the excess because I cant relate it to the temporary trangression?
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1) Equivalent reproduction happens when the reproduction is exactly the same (this may be taken in terms of it's form - looks the same, or its value - is considered the same, valued the same) as what it reproduces. The point is that there is no "original" with an "aura."
2)The watcher is not always more powerful than the watched. Many writers feel that the watcher is more powerful, for example, in strip shows or lap dancing. He pays for the show and she has to do what he paid for. This can be extended to displays of female bodies in general, but as I said in class it then becomes more controversial.
3) He was talking about the "gaze" we experience from our surroundings, which is often not the gaze of a specific person. It is an "uncanny" experience, a connection to the unknown real, what is not explained by our rational knowledge or even our imagination. Because it is a connection to the unkown real, it is an objet petit a.
4) Not that the person who suffers is the most important character but that their physically expressed suffering is the most important moment.
The temporary transgression in wrestling is the permission wrestlers have to cheat, lie, fight outside the ring, attack the referee and generally break rules (but within limits, as we said). Of course there is a sham referee but he is powerless to enforce the rules and in fact his job is not to enforce them but to suffer insults and mishandling by bad-guy wrestlers.
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2)The watcher is not always more powerful than the watched. Many writers feel that the watcher is more powerful, for example, in strip shows or lap dancing. He pays for the show and she has to do what he paid for. This can be extended to displays of female bodies in general, but as I said in class it then becomes more controversial.
3) He was talking about the "gaze" we experience from our surroundings, which is often not the gaze of a specific person. It is an "uncanny" experience, a connection to the unknown real, what is not explained by our rational knowledge or even our imagination. Because it is a connection to the unkown real, it is an objet petit a.
4) Not that the person who suffers is the most important character but that their physically expressed suffering is the most important moment.
The temporary transgression in wrestling is the permission wrestlers have to cheat, lie, fight outside the ring, attack the referee and generally break rules (but within limits, as we said). Of course there is a sham referee but he is powerless to enforce the rules and in fact his job is not to enforce them but to suffer insults and mishandling by bad-guy wrestlers.
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