Blog #3: Moving ourselves into new contexts, Due 10/21

At this juncture, we have covered material as it relates to our developing subjectivities in different spaces. 'Apparate' or secondspace yourself into a context that has yet to exist and consider how your subjectivity would be vulnerable to either stabilizing or destabilizing in this context. In brief, invent a context you've never been in, describe based on what you know about yourself, how you might respond, and describe the visible and invisible sociopolitical messages that the given space tries to inscribe onto you. You can use each others' contexts if you like em'. Go play! Again, be sure to use class discussions, references and articles...

Blog #2- due 9/28: Reflect on how your current identities have been influenced by any particular popular culture...read below

Applying concepts from Baudrillard, Visual Rhetoric, class discussions, observations, your WIKIS and course readings, reflect, by selecting one popular culture that has "SUCKED" you in and describe how your identity has been influenced. Consider the space(s) you inhabit when you participate in that popular culture(such as a sporting event, or a dance club...), the logos present, colors, your senses, presence, and the tools that rhetors have used to seduce and construct identity. What sociopolitical ideologies impact those spaces and how does that impact you?

Reflection #1, due 9/16 with WIKI

Your reflection is a 2 page response about how you negotiated and experienced your identity stabilize, destabilize or even restabilize in the space you attended. In your response, please 1) focus in-depth (by drawing on the tools below) on at least two items that you perceived important as it impacted your experience in the social space you attended, and consider 2) the sociopolitical messages that attempted to unveil themselves in those spaces and its' impact on you . For support, draw upon class discussions, readings, and websites, to analyze your own experience and consider class terms, visual rhetoric, visual reading (oppositional, negotiated, or dominant stances), film tools, archetypes, color symbology and any other tools you have up to this juncture. Your responses should be in either MLA or APA and references are a must.

Blog #1: How do you interpret Baudrillard's concept of the simulacra? Identify/describe other simulacras...

Hi all- it's been a pleasure having all of you in class and talking with you! For your first blog entry which is due by 12:00PM on 9/9, please respond to the question posed above as you also read through your peers' responses. In your responses, please take into consideration class discussions, readings, peer comments, and outside experiences, etc. Please note the authors and theories we have discussed in your responses. Your answer is thorough when you have included these aspects. Have fun!

Popular Culture Proposals

On 9/7, please submit a one-page typed proposal with all of the members names and which is stratified into three areas: (a) define the popular culture and use a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources that supports your pc; (b) provide details about what you intend to research within your popular culture (differences in spaces, messages, genders, beliefs, etc., ); and (c) describe the three venues that you intend to visit 3x. Be sure to use proper citations at the end of the proposal.