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‘Image’ / ‘I’ / ‘Nation’: A Cultural Mash-Up, Matthew Sutherlin, Amy Counts
‘Image’ / ‘I’ / ‘Nation’: A Cultural Mash-Up, Matthew Sutherlin, Amy Counts
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
The term Un(precedent)ED conjures ‘images’ that have never been seen before in education. Too often in the classroom we focus on the classification of objects and practices. The metaphysical question “what is?” is important only in that it must be continually revisited. Through continual re-visitation, the question becomes “what can it be?” Unfortunately, the process of becoming through imagination is a practice that is often relegated to childish whimsy. Un(precedent)ED practice requires the (re)imaging of the current apparatus of education. Precedent is a standard or model that comes before a particular event or moment; components, such as sound, written text, …
Grasping The Site/Sight/Cite Of The Image: A Lacanian Explication, Jan Jagodzinski
Grasping The Site/Sight/Cite Of The Image: A Lacanian Explication, Jan Jagodzinski
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Reading images psychoanalytically from a Lacanian perspective has its challenges. The first task of this essay is to provide a way through what is often taken to be difficult and impenetrable theory, to explicate how the homology site/ sight/ cite can be understood in any act of critical perception. Its second task is to make distinctions between a psychoanalytic understanding of the subject as being 'split' or divided (as represented by the matheme '$,' Lacan's symbol for this form of subjectivity) when applied to art, as opposed to a naive realist subject of representation or a savvy poststructuralist (decentered) subject …
Deconstructing The Frame: Siting Absence, Jason Wallin
Deconstructing The Frame: Siting Absence, Jason Wallin
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Our contemporary social landscape is increasingly inscribed and articulated through images. With the proliferation of televisual mediums, the image has become the primary vehicle mediating social relationships, impinging on our experience of both self and other (Debord, 1978). As Virilio (2002) avers, the drive of capitalism seeks to appropriate the imagistic code as a bid for mastery over the symbolic order. In this manner, the media/ted images that flood the social terrain are often cites of ideological del sign. In other words, signs are often ideologically 'stabilized' as connotations of other signs, forming an abstract, positive calculus of signification. In …
9/11 The Last Shard Standing, Jan Jagodzinski
9/11 The Last Shard Standing, Jan Jagodzinski
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
This meditation on the event of 9/11 emerges from a certain perplexity on my part concerning an elision on Lacan's part regarding the materiality of vision as developed in Seminar XI (The Four Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis). Many cinematic theoreticians and art historians have returned again and again to his discussions, "Of the Gaze as Object Petit a," to establish the definitive distinctions between the look and the gaze. To briefly recap this well-known territory, the look is attributed to 'natural' perception. That is, to the initiative and power of the subject as moi. This means the ability to place people …
Another Acid Test (Postcards With An Edge), Michael J. Emme
Another Acid Test (Postcards With An Edge), Michael J. Emme
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
That Merry Prankster of postmodernism, Jacques Derrida, introduced the mind altering drug of significant play into theoretical culture's discourse around meaning and text. Like his prankster predecessors, Derrida's mindful but seemingly anarchistic intervention resulted in insight (into the complexity of text in culture) for some, and chaos (in the guise of abject deconstructive relativism) for others. What follows is a compilation of texts that is both mundane and complex.
Art Education And Technology: These Are The Days Of Miracles And Wonder, Paul Duncum
Art Education And Technology: These Are The Days Of Miracles And Wonder, Paul Duncum
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
This paper examines the impact on human consciousness of the exponential proliferation of electronic images, and offers suggestions concerning how educators should respond. A postmodern critique includes the ideas of an inverted Kantian aesthetics which embraces the everyday, a dramatic compression of space and time, and personal disorientation. A further critique grounds these views of consciousness in new economic arrangements and the rapaciousness of capitalism. I argue that the only viable educational response to this new consciousness is a critical examination of mass media imagery. Basic components of media education in schools are signposts of an appropriate response.
Commentary, Jan Jagodzinski
Commentary, Jan Jagodzinski
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
The questions Professor Kupffer's article raise concerning the relationship between image and the word, have been, by and large, ignored in modern aesthetic thought. An artificial separation of these two media of expression had been, since the Renaissance, characteristic of western philosophical thought. Leonardo, Cellini and Michelangelo all wrote treatises In order to place art on the same footing as the literati's words. A quick scan of the philosophical record suggests that the deep schism persists between the image and the word which manifests itself as a bifurcation between rationality and irrationality. To name but a few of the more …