Respond to TWO questions from the list below. Each
response is worth FIVE marks, and should be no longer than 300 words in length.
Responses that exceed this length will be deducted 0.5 marks. Your responses
are subject to the text restrictions for Short Answer and Analysis questions
described above (MLA 9 Referencing)
1.
With reference to
specific terms such as “happy objects,” “stickiness,” or “affect aliens,”
discuss how Sara Ahmed’s work on affect deepens your understanding of Jenny
Dorsey’s TED talk.
2.
With reference to
the work of John Berger and Judith Butler, discuss how the meaning of a word,
act, or image is altered by its context and temporality. In other words, how is
meaning altered by the location of a word, act, or image in space and time?
3.
Compare and
contrast the attention given to patriarchal “tools” in the work of Audre Lorde
and Laura Mulvey. How do the contexts and/or subject matter of their essays
impact each thinker’s consideration of such tools?
4.
Citing the work
of Stuart Hall, Dick Hebdige describes ideologies as “maps of meaning” (149).
Discuss how this particular definition of ideology deepens your understanding
of Tiffany Kaewen Dang’s discussion of landscape.
5.
Discuss how our
contemporary digital context require us to update or nuance our theoretical
understandings of TWO of the following terms: Panopticism, neoliberalism, or resistance. Your response should engage
with the work of TWO of the following thinkers: Catherine Zimmer, Jodi Dean, or
Rianka Singh.
6. Compare and contrast Roland Barthes’ discussion
of lexicons and idiolects with Cynthia Enloe’s discussion of COVID-19
metaphors. What do these two sources suggest about the ways in which we
encounter and/or resist ideologies through language (both individually and
collectively)?
