Research Note #2: “The Most Photographed Barn in America”
Paragraph A: In this passage extracted from the novel White Noise, the author, Don Dellilo describes Jack and Murray’s visit to a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America to exhibit the significance of perception in addition to humanity’s lack of awareness regarding reification. The first paragraph establishes the scene in a countryside with a “MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA” sign, the presence of animals and typical tourists taking photographs and buying souvenirs. Following the contemplative and observation saturated silence, Murray proposed his theory that: “No one sees the barn,…Once you’ve seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see …show more content…
In the form of homage, Basho creates reflective and culturally significant poems that utilize untraditional methods such as musical literature and physical representations of respect in the form of silk strips tied at certain sanctuaries. Although religious in nature, Frow explicates the underlying purpose of his account of Basho’s pilgrimage as a precise “model of contemporary tourism-not in the sense of the basal anthropological analysis […] but in the sense that Basho sets up a relationship between the tourist and the form of knowledge appropriate to it which continues to hold truth beyond the customary religious framework of Basho’s world,” that the act of viewing as with the most photographed barn in America is not an empirical act but the congruence of the sight with the idea of sight. Utilizing this concept as the basis of the analysis, Frow describes the transformation of tourism with the introduction of photography, underscoring the transformation of space into its own material and the conclusion that tourism is an extension of commodity relations that embedded with perspective …show more content…
However, after the discussion surrounding the significance of humanity’s assignment of meaning to everything from words to the “most photographed barn in America,” I decided that understanding the connection between reality, artifice and our technologically advanced postmodern society. Upon searching the Oregon State University database I had a difficult time obtaining an intricate article that scrutinized the novel White Noise and not actual white noise as a form of stress relief or its physiological effects on the anatomical structure and function of hearing but rather white noise as an aspect of life. After locating the article “White Noise: Don DeLillo's Postmodern Autopsy of the Twentieth Century,” which had a promising title, I emailed my Advanced Placement teacher that is currently analyzing this novel with her seniors and requested her copy. The online research in combination with exploiting my resources allowed me to access an article that clarified the significance of this passage specifically in relation to modern
Paragraph A: In this passage extracted from the novel White Noise, the author, Don Dellilo describes Jack and Murray’s visit to a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America to exhibit the significance of perception in addition to humanity’s lack of awareness regarding reification. The first paragraph establishes the scene in a countryside with a “MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA” sign, the presence of animals and typical tourists taking photographs and buying souvenirs. Following the contemplative and observation saturated silence, Murray proposed his theory that: “No one sees the barn,…Once you’ve seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see …show more content…
In the form of homage, Basho creates reflective and culturally significant poems that utilize untraditional methods such as musical literature and physical representations of respect in the form of silk strips tied at certain sanctuaries. Although religious in nature, Frow explicates the underlying purpose of his account of Basho’s pilgrimage as a precise “model of contemporary tourism-not in the sense of the basal anthropological analysis […] but in the sense that Basho sets up a relationship between the tourist and the form of knowledge appropriate to it which continues to hold truth beyond the customary religious framework of Basho’s world,” that the act of viewing as with the most photographed barn in America is not an empirical act but the congruence of the sight with the idea of sight. Utilizing this concept as the basis of the analysis, Frow describes the transformation of tourism with the introduction of photography, underscoring the transformation of space into its own material and the conclusion that tourism is an extension of commodity relations that embedded with perspective …show more content…
However, after the discussion surrounding the significance of humanity’s assignment of meaning to everything from words to the “most photographed barn in America,” I decided that understanding the connection between reality, artifice and our technologically advanced postmodern society. Upon searching the Oregon State University database I had a difficult time obtaining an intricate article that scrutinized the novel White Noise and not actual white noise as a form of stress relief or its physiological effects on the anatomical structure and function of hearing but rather white noise as an aspect of life. After locating the article “White Noise: Don DeLillo's Postmodern Autopsy of the Twentieth Century,” which had a promising title, I emailed my Advanced Placement teacher that is currently analyzing this novel with her seniors and requested her copy. The online research in combination with exploiting my resources allowed me to access an article that clarified the significance of this passage specifically in relation to modern