Interpellation

The categorisation of humans into various gender related groups is something spanning across time and cultures. Possible causes of such divisions include grammatical forms of communication, a prospect investigated by structuralism. A variety of approaches concerned with the classification of language in the mind (Jenkins, 1992), it demonstrates just how the power of spoken and written word creates detachments between men and women. Key thinkers including Claude Lévi-Strauss and Ferdinand de Saussure

Elle, a Theatre Passe Murielle Production adapted by Severn Thompson, from the novel by Douglas Glover is a spectacular example of post-colonial theatre. The production was recently performed at the Vancouver Firehall Arts Centre in which I had the pleasure to experience. Post-colonial literature and post-colonial theatre act as important stories to tell, explain and give responses to of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism. Post-colonial theatre first and foremost focuses on the issues

Over the past years, mainstream advertising campaigns have shifted their rhetoric to include a focus on non-heterosexual identities, working toward normalizing these within the mass consumer audience. Yet these campaigns propagate representations that are not entirely consistent with how members of non-heterosexual communities identify and define themselves. In this paper, I will argue that mainstream advertising campaigns work to shift the mass consumer audience's perception of non-heterosexual

The prominent characteristic of postcolonial writing is the incorporation of writing back or rewriting history into the narrative from the point of view of the colonized. Postcolonial narratives speak out and attempt to expose the injustices of dominant culture often within their own cultural system. Within this framework, many female authors give agency to the once silenced female voice of the colonized. By employing their own narratives, many postcolonial female authors demystify the prescribed

This essay will unpack the ways in which hegemonic discourses are subverted to present counterhegemonic discourses focusing on the Tokolos stencil on page two. It shall equally consider the potential and limitations of such a practice in a South African context. Finally, this essay will argue that culture jamming brings about liberal pluralism and leads to a critical pedagogy by encouraging people to do reverse engineering and question the dominant ideologies set in place. Culture jamming is a form

Essay I: Of Althusser and ISAs Ideology is much like oxygen gas, invisible to the average human yet ever present in the world. According to philosopher Louis Althusser, ideology is “a ‘representation’ of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence” (Norton 1498). Ideology is a means by which people attempt to comprehend themselves in relation to the reality they exist in. For example, in Christianity, people view themselves as placed into reality for the purpose

Cleon Bandoo, Nottingham Trent University, 2017 Consumerism is not just the acquisition of things it is the buying of self identity In contemporary society it almost seems that we are profoundly connected and dependant upon consumption , surrounding ideologies that suggest that consumer has invaded to an extent that, when we consume we construct identity, has come to dominate as ‘the new religion of the late 20th century,’ (Miller,) these theories can be connected with “choice” which serves to

Aquinas on the relation between the body and soul In Summa theologiae Ia, q. 75, Aquinas combines both Platonic and Aristotelian notions of the soul in responding to a question on the unity of the human soul and the body. He supports Aristotelianism in describing a human being as composed of both matter and form. Here he suggests that a human being has both the soul, which is the essence of human existence and matter, which is the actualization of the human existence. However, when it comes to

Enhanced Interrogation [Name of the Writer] [Name of the Institution] Enhanced Interrogation Introduction Interrogation (also known as interpellation or questioning) is referred as interviewing. This activity is often executed by officers of military, police and intelligence agencies. The main objective of this questioning is to obtain the important information or extracting the declaration from the terrorist. It is often observed that, the areas of interrogation may include witnesses, victims

Within humoral theory, the body is understood to be comprised of four humors: black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood. Gail Kern Paster describes the long-standing importance of humoral theory, writing (8). Compare and contrast the idea of the body as a “semipermeable, irrigated container” in two texts covered in the course. Relate your analysis of the two texts to humoral theory. In Renaissance Literature, the body has been interpreted in different ways. Renaissance writers understood the body