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RUMINATION WEEK 16

This week our in our final chapter we talked about The Global Flow of Visual Culture. This chapter talks about how the global flow of visual culture has evolved through huge amounts of circulation. This chapter discusses how Anthropocene is the name for the current geological time period. Sturken and Cartwright (2017) state, “In which the Earth’s formations and environments have been degraded by human activity, in which human activity is shaping the planet and its atmosphere” (p. 308). This chapter also talked about TV and film affecting globalization. TV allowed transnational circulation. Nexflix is a perfect example of how films and entertainment are circulated. Cultural barriers are broken and allow people to learn different cultures as well as what is happening around the world. I chose this image to represent how Netflix shows films and entertainment being broadcasted everywhere. It has Netflix in each part country to show that it is available everywhere to educate about each culture.

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RUMINATION WEEK 10

This week we talked about “Media in Everyday Life”. In the world today it is very hard to determine whether what you’re seeing in an image is real or fake. With all the new technology, images can be made into anything you want them to be. I think one of the most interesting things from this chapter was that for the most part, six different company does own pretty much everything. Those six companies hold all the power to what is produced on the stations/channels. These six companies have house several broadcasts and cable networks and several live-action and animated film studios. I chose this image of the sox major companies that own and control almost all media in the United States because it shows the six major companies and a few examples of what they control right below it. It also shows the statistics of how many companies owned media in 1983 compared to in 2011 when it turned to only 6 companies owning all media. I thought that was very interesting to see how overtime media is being changed as well as who owns and produces it.

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RUMINATION WEEK 13

This week we talked still life rhetoric. We talked about images being remixed and reproduced often with political ties. We discussed a lot about Obama’s Hope Campaign posters. There were several remixes that had been made using that original Obama Hope poster and all the memes and new meanings the pictures created. It was also interesting to learn about the man behind the Obama Hope poster. The man named Shepard Fairey created this piece of art so quickly without a lot of thought not knowing the impact/meaning it ends up having. Overall it was a very interesting chapter and fun topic to learn about. I chose this meme of the Obama Hope poster because it just goes to show how fast images travel and how anything image can be changed to fit a whole different concept. This image of grumpy cat saying nope is funny because that is his personality of always being grumpy and not wanting to do anything.

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RUMINATION 14

In chapter 9 Sturken and Cartwright talk about scientific looking and the advancement of scientific advantages throughout the years. The advancement in technology has changed the way people act in the world today. The computer for example has advanced to be better at processing data and rendering it graphically. Sturken and Cartwright research how even though images are produced and looking practices are performed by machines this process is still shaped by the way way people feel, how educated one is and the experienced. Sturken and Cartwright (2017) state “science is constituted through changing social and culture frameworks. How we configure disease, treatment, and our bodies changes with shifts in the epistemic frameworks and practices through which we experience the world.” (p. 337-338). Sturken and Cartwright research about taking up scientific and technical imaging systems, practices and cultures to figure out how science and medicine been classified and what constitutes health and the normal and pathological body and mind. The Emprical Medical Gaze was interesting to read about. It was interesting to see the image of the “wound man” that was used in the fifteenth and sixteenth century manuscripts to map the typical place of battle wounds. The image wasn’t intended as a surgical diagram, but as character. The wound man brings out sympathy for the viewer. The Anatomical and Surgical Theater was very interesting too. It shows how oddly fascinated people are with dead bodies. It is an anatomy theater, with a room where dead bodies and dead bodies of criminals mostly used for dissection to learn more about the human body and for entertainment as well. I think this weeks reading had a lot of interesting topics and how it all relates to scientific looking.

This image is an example of an anatomical and surgical theater. It shows how people are starting to gather around to learn more about one of the dead bodies and for their entertainment.

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RUMINATION WEEK 11

In chapter 8 of the book Practices of Looking, Sturken and Cartwright (2017) studied how postmodernism includes how we interact in stimulated environments having the feeling that everything has happened before; preoccupation which remakes, remixes, appropriations and pastiche.” (p. 301). Sturken and Cartwright (2017) researched that the rise of postmodern styles in the twentieth-century art, pop culture and architecture has combined and connected with recent decades with their new modes of culture and economics which are fueled largely by digital technology and social media. Many people in the earlier decades have learned more about the technologies of the generation today. The book Post Modernism Condition by French philosopher, Jean Francis Lyotard talks educates people about changing conditions of knowledge and human subjectivity in the late twentieth century which was the end of the modern industrial age. Sturken and Cartwright (2017) also researched more about this time period where it was escalating globalization, computerization and information on all the new technologies. Sturken and Cartwright (2017) stated that “Modernism is characterized by a sense of knowing that foward-looking and positivistic, embracing new and promulgating the belief that one could know what is objectivity true and real.” (p. 303). The AT&T building 1984 (now 550 Madison Avenue) New York built by Philip Johnson that Sturken and Cartwright used in the book is a good example of postmodernism. Sturken and Cartwright (2017) stated, “It is a classic example of postmodernism mixing semiotic elements to emphasize the importance of design as a signifying activity.” (p.306). The example shows appropriation of Chippendale form for the corporate-power skyline of New York. It was an iconic poke at modernity’s high culture for its associations with bad taste. Sturken and Cartwright (2017) state, “A key aspect of postmodernism is the turn from the copy and representation to stimulation.” (p. 307). An example of stimulations are themes parks. The theme parks make you feel like you’re really there. They use images for sculptures, all types of digital media and many other forms to make you feel like you are actually experiencing the real thing. Sturken and Cartwright (2017) studied how the picture Drowning Girl is an example that shows postmodernism’s engagement with reflexive knowing in the face of modernists. It showed truth, value and meaning. Jaded knowing and irony are important in postmodernism. Jaded knowing came about through anime which came from Japanese manga culture. Remixes and parodies are in so many images around the world today. Sturken and Cartwright (2017) talk about how remixes and mash-culture are direct results in changes of production. A big example of this could be TikTok. TikTok started off as a very small app that derived from the social media app Vine. TikTok has now grown tremendously over the last year. Pastiche is also used in postmodernism to describe the culture of imitation, remake and parody. Lastly Sturken and Cartwright (2017) studied how postmodern spaces mainly include sites of distracting and waiting like freeways, airports, waiting rooms and many more. It is a way to be virtually connected while also be physically present. I am using the example TikTok for how remixes and mash-up culture are the direct result of changes in production and marketing of media forms including the rise of something like the social media app, TikTok. It shows how TikTok has blown up and is a place where people go to figure out anything everything. It is a huge place for marketing and production.

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This picture represents how kitsch is viewed as low culture/poor. The outfit being call kitsch shows an example of people falling into high fashion and being offended when being called out. When people are wearing things that everyone gets or everyone already has it can be viewed as kitsch. I chose to say something about an outfit being kitsch because a lot of people today fall into buying high fashion which is good example of kitsch.