Theatre And Theory Exam 2

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Materialism

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there are no supernatural forces at work in the world dictating relationships (either social, economic or political) must look at natural phenomena and social phenomena

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Idealism

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assumption that there are supernatural forces in the world that dictate relationships (true love, God, etc.)

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Dialectic

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history moves when synthesis occurs (antithesis and thesis collide)

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Base

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means of production, distribution and exchange

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Superstructure

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everything in society that isn’t production

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Economic Determinism

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everything in the superstructure is caused directly by something from the base

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Relative Autonomy

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the super structure is largely independent although the base influences it

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Repressive Structures

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forcing values on the base with violence (i.e. the military) Repressive structures

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state ideological apparatus (or “hegemony”)

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sympathetic to an existing view, to get you to agree with the base but no actual force (Fox News)

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Interpellation

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the process whereby ideology makes you believe that you have autonomy and choice, you are being forced to submit to these choices because you have “ free will”

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Alienation

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process through which a worker is de-skilled (the human being becomes a commodity)

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Reification

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process by which a worker is de-humanized

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Center

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has a positive connotation and the margin helps define it (part of a dyad)

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Margin

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the opposite of the center

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De-Centered Universe

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the center is gone and there is no connotation with either margin

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Constructed Subject

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concept that you are completely constructed by your surrounding (all nurture, no nature)

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De-Construction

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Breaks dyads, Post Structuralism applied to literature

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Linguistic Anxiety

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there is no such thing as universal meaning

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Birth of Reader/Death of Author

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the text can take on other or new meaning than the author intended

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Free Play

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you can infer whatever meaning you want from a given text

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Differance

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to differ and defer, words take on new meaning over time

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Aporia

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any word can mean any other word, words are always undermined, there is no such thing as an independent definition

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Supplement

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speech is a superior form of communication and writing is secondary to it

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Hegemony

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anything that supports the status quo (part of maintaining the base)

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Louis Althusser

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Coined most terms regarding Marxism and Ideology

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Ideology

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world view, connects the Base and the Superstructure and seeks to cover up the relationship between the two

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Karl Marx

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father of Marxist thinking, co-wrote the Communist Manifest with Friedrich Engels

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Friedrich Engels

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Co-wrote basics of Marxist theories with Karl Marx, connected Marxism to art

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Engelsian Marxism

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art relates to and reflects society

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Roland Barthes

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"death of the author", semiotician

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Jacques Derrida

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de-centered universe, deconstruction

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Signifier

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the material manifestation we perceive (the spoken word, the sound, the drawing, photo, smell, taste, etc.)

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Signified

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the concept or mental imaged invoked by the signifier

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Referent

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the object or idea to which a word or phrase refers