VCC290 Final Flashcards

Question

Pittura infamante

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- Place for executions and art - Frescos of condemned men we’re painted on the exterior

Answer 2

- How comforters shaped the experience of public executions (specifically in Florence and Bologna) - rather than punishing the body the comforters tried to transform prisoners spiritually into redeemed souls - with music, prayer, imagery, and ritual, executions became religious and political performances 1. Execution as Ritual, Not Just Punishment - prisoner’s body became a symbolic object, used to display messages about justice, salvation, and state power 2. The Prisoner as a Sacramental Object - Prisoners were spiritually “adopted” by confraternity members, replacing their biological families 3. Artistic & Sensory Tools - Tavolette, sensory cocoon (shield from outside distractions) 4. Processions and Performance - Prisoners were paraded through the city, stopping at key religious sites - The prisoner’s body became a public icon

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- the bell was a divine voice and an emblem of community - was a political instrument and was a "personified citizen"

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- Seat of Florentine government in the Palazzo della Signoria - Location of bonfire of the Vanities [February 7, 1497] - Location of failed Trial by Fire [April 7, 1498] - Location of Savonarola’s execution [May 23, 1498]

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- bell was seized by Franciscans - bell was dragged through the city on a cart pulled by a donkey - bell was whipped by a hangman - bell is sentenced to exile for 50 years outside of the city walls -

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arrabbiati Frateschi

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A gate to the outside of the city that people would go through when they are to be executed

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- Public shame occurs when a community collectively ostracizes an individual for violating its moral values or other societal norms. This often involves publicly humiliating the person both within and beyond the boundaries of the community. - Spectacle that establishes moral good and bad while humiliating the wrongdoer and simultaneously highlighting the moral superiority of those who enacted the shame

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- after Savonarolas death, the florence governemnt exiled the bell (bell of San Marco) - bell was rung by Savonarola to summon his followers - bell was deeply connected to Savonarola - he rung it to call his followers and symbolized his moral authority. - Over time, it became almost sacred, especially to his supporters - After Savonarola's death, the bell felt like a lingering presence of him — a symbol he still lived on - To fully shame and erase his influence, the Florentine government put the bell on trial, beat it publicly, and exiled it for 50 years - wasn’t just about punishing an object — it was about humiliating his followers and cutting off what was left of his spiritual power

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- born Dublin, Ierland - Writer, poet, dramatist - Arrested and charged with sodomy and gross indecency - jailed for 2 years - Died in Paris France - would celebrate excess, which ultimately destroyed his life

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1. Renaissance Italy Savonarola - bonfire of the vanities - bell on trial 2. Victorian Britian Oscar Wilde - was gay, considered sodomy, was jailed 3. 21st Century North America -

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- alfreds dad was like this is wack and gross, stop now - also that Wilde's wife is divorcing him or this sodomy

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- Criminal case - 25 counts of gross indecency and 3 counts of conspiracy to commit gross indecency - Defendant: Wilde - Began April 26, 1895 - Hung jury - Re-trial started May 20, 1895 - Wilde found guilty - Wilde sentenced to 2 years in prison with hard labour

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- basically Gay sex was not allowed - considered bestiality - 3-10 years imprisonment or any term not exceeding 2 years w or wo hard labour - Wild had big gay sex and was convicted for it (I believe with minor men... idk tho)

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- his gayness (queerness) - he would pose queer

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- Legal punishment (especially public torture and public execution) becomes less visible in the 19th century - He traces the development of punishment, beginning with a contrast from French history: a public torture and execution in 1757 and a time-table for prisoners c.1840 - He argues that this period marks a shift in what is public about public shame form the perspective of the law: - Executions/torture becomes hidden - Publicity shifts to the trial - The justice system becomes ashamed of public shame as punishment

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- pose subject as a criminal, the lesser - take an image in an embarrassing way - often rich criminals mugstots looked like fancy paintings - there was no discrimination for them - rich mugshots were taken at 45° angles much like their fancy portraits

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if ppl are always watching you, you will act correctly

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F - Trial and conviction became the public-facing mark of shame L - Photography becomes the public-facing mark of shame

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- evolution of the mugshot - mugshots were never neutral, deeply tied to ideologies like positivism, racism, colonialism, and later fascism - mugshots helped construct notions of "the other", separating criminals, the poor, the colonized, and later entire ethnic groups from "normal" society - Mugshots evolved from painterly portraits to standardized, dehumanizing formats: emotionless, neutral background, frontal and side profiles - mugshots became tools of "scientific" criminal profiling - "born criminals" based on these features - public became specitcals - European colonizers used it to justify their control Indigenous and colonized people were photographed naked or posed in degrading ways to mark them as “savage” or “lesser.” - ome mugshots of upper-class or white-collar criminals were in fact taken in a 45-degree angle, mimicking traditional elite portraiture — especially when the mugshot genre was still developing

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“As Wilde’s fame grew, so too did the appetite for caricatures that depicted him as physically grotesque”

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Victorians associated with: - homosexuality - drug users/addicts - excessive food consumption

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- Studied law in England from 1888-1891 - Joined the London Vegetarian Society - Became civil rights activist in South Africa and India - Opposed British colonial rule

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- veggeterianism wasnt excess so looked down upon - Small group of activists

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Social Media functions as a virtual capitalist economy - Reconceives the self as a private business or brand - Fosters and rewards entrepreneurial behaviour - System built on competition Social Media’s capitalist structure induces guilt and debt - Clout/status is a volatile commodity - Not devoting endless time devalues status - Recognition from others becomes a form of debt owed by the (micro)celebrity to the social network

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- Jon Ronson finds a fake Twitter account impersonating him. - It uses his name and face but tweets weird, nonsense stuff (like food tweets and dreams). - It’s created by three academics who call it an “infomorph”, saying it’s an art experiment. - Ronson is frustrated and freaked out — he feels like his identity is being stolen and distorted. - He films an interview with the creators and posts it to YouTube. - The internet rallies behind him — people leave angry, even violent comments about the academics. - The fake account is deleted — Ronson feels vindicated and powerful - he publicly shamed the public shamers, they shut down there account bc ppl backed him and they got justice

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📱 Online shame is like modern-day punishment — fast, brutal, and public. 🤳 Digital identity can be stolen or distorted — and you may have no control. 💥 Social media mobs can enforce justice — but sometimes go too far. 🔄 Ronson’s story shows both how helpless and how powerful people can feel online

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enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others - if u like watching the biggest looser, or shows that humiliate ppl for entertainment

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- Yes and no - according to audience interviews, though some reality TV shows encouraged adoption of self-surveillance techniques and shadenfreude, viewers’ opinions were more nuanced. - Many viewers displayed “complex moral hierarchies of shame” (104), and tended to distinguish ‘functional shame’ from abject humiliation for profit, while also understanding the role of the producers in subjecting reality TV participants to shame. - However, many viewers did not critique the “normative elements of shaming

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- shame could promote “normative gender, class, and race performances by candidates in the show - Reality TV presents viewers with a fiction of changing the person by inducing feelings of shame - biggest looser - the story transformational reality TV tells its viewers is that shaming someone is a functional way to make them change

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- State power (tracking, spying, etc.) - CCTV surveillance in shops, public spaces etc. - Workplace surveillance (must account for every minute of every day/every movement and action) - Social media/Web 2.0

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- was for shame - burned by Savonarola in Bonfire of the Vanities

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Makeover shows like What Not to Wear and The Biggest Loser use shame and surveillance to push people to transform - 360° mirrors and confessional booths make ppl on shows "see themselves the way others do" - in turn this means time to change - Makeover shows work through shame — not just pointing out bad habits, but making people feel inadequate in their appearance, class, or lifestyle - Shame is used as a tool to motivate self-improvement and uphold social norms - Candidates are expected to change how they look, dress, eat, clean, and behave — usually to match middle-class, white, gender-conforming ideals

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- partly enclosed memorial for 3 black men that were lynched - memorial was between buildings so you had to enter into it - starred layout kind of building up to the main focus, the three men - the men were place sticking out of the plaq and were above so ppl have to look up to them

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- Non-linguistic - Broadly, emotion - In particular embodied emotion - Emotion that extends beyond the individual person - Can be interpersonal, but also cultural, political, historical - Notoriously tricky

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- allegedly sexually assulted a white girl - No evidence of assault or rape found by physician - That evening, a mob (1,000-10,000 people) stormed the police station and captured them - Mob held a mock trial and lynched them

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- Spiritual position in many Indigenous cultures - Frequently cross and challenge boundaries - Tell stories to entertain - Transmit traditional knowledge

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- term created in 1990 at an Indigenous gay and lesbian international meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba - deliberately sets apart Indigenous gender and sexuality non-conforming folks from non-Indigenous LGBTQ folks - is not a substitute for words reflecting diverse genders and sexualities that are specific to Indigenous languages

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- More than 1,000 people took part in the afternoon march and rally that began at Queen's Park and ended on at the statue stood - Dancers perform during the rally in front of the defaced statue - 'About an hour after the last of the people left, a truck arrived on Gould Street and proceeded to pull down the statue of Egerton Ryerson’ - Residential school survivor Joey Twins is presented the head from the statue - The head was dunked into the harbour * - The head appears at 1492 Land Back Lane

Answer 40

- a formal defence - usually in response to real or perceived criticism: “defence of a person, or vindication of an institution, etc., from accusation or aspersion” -OED - “esp. a written defence or justification of the opinions or conduct of a writer, speaker, etc.” –OED - part of classical rhetoric and communication studies - can include, but does not have to include, an apology - Is usually written, but can be visual