Thursday 20 November 2014

Cop Seminar 3

Deconstruction - A questioning of hierarchies and structures, a mode of thinking. 
'Design, Writing, Research' Lupton and Miller, 1996: Ellen Lupton explores aspects and methods of deconstruction, analysing Derrida's theories. 

- Attention is paid to the context in which something exists. 
- Our understanding of anything is through representation, e.g language
- Nothing is perceived from purely interior consciousness 
- Speech is better than writing, but writing is better than typography
- Typography inhabits the written word


Alan Hori

- Uses layout to subvert written word
- Reader has to work to understand and read

- GLAS by Jacques Derrida - layout

- House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski 


Pastiche - an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist or period. 

- Soap and Glory
- Keep calm and carry on 

Cultural appropriation: 
  1. Cultural appropriation is the adoption of elements of one culture by members of a different cultural group, specifically the use by culturaloutsiders of a minority, oppressed culture's symbols or other culturalelements.







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