Week 14 (PRE-FINALS)

Question 1

The field which is most active in facilitating and naturalizing the visual regimes of normalization and capitalization.

Answer 1

Media

Question 2

It is impossible to make sense of how and why people think, behave and come to see the world without media

Answer 2

Media

Question 3

According to _______, Spectacle is not a collection of images, but it is a social relations among among people, mediated by images

Answer 3

Debord (1967)

Question 4

added, in his discussion of Debord’s influential book the society of the Spectacle:
“With the construction of conditions that individuate, immobilize and separate subjects”… In this way attention becomes key to the operation of noncoercive forms of power. Television and the personal computer are methods for the management of attention… even as they simulate the illusion of choices and interactivity”.

Answer 4

John Crary

Question 5

In Topic 6 we learned about the reason of state. Which referred to the way the state, through its bureaucracies, institutions, policies and discourses, intervened in and attempted to manage the lives and activities of its main resource: ___________.

Answer 5

people

Question 6

In the nineteenth and particularly the twentieth centuries, this process was often central to the creation of the nation state, where various groups of people-often culturally, ethnically and geographically different were interpellated into what Benedict Anderson calls an “__________”

Answer 6

imagined

Question 7

is the constitutive process where individuals acknowledge and respond to ideologies, thereby recognizing themselves as subjects.

Answer 7

Interpellation

Question 8

is a group of people who even if they have never met, belong to community with similar

Answer 8

Imagined Community

Question 9

According to _______ mass media does not only circulate and reinforce such capitalized ideas. Through mass media invisible ideology makes room for most, group of social standing.

Answer 9

Lefort

Question 10

is always loaded in terms of who speaks, who is chosen to represent different points of view, the kinds of questions that are asked, or the background information of commentary that is provided

Answer 10

Display of Communication and representativeness

Question 11

The main function of the _________ is not to interrogate meanings of stories, but to facilitate a (very quick) looking at and recognition of the performances that are given

Answer 11

Media