Binary opposition

“Medea explores the tension between reason and passion”. Discuss It is within the very nature of humans to isolate the polarised forces of reason and passion, yet within his Greek tragedy Medea, Euripides demonstrates the “fatal results” of possessing a predisposition for either frame of mind. Indeed, the antagonistic relationship between Medea and society best contextualises the gripping antithesis between maintaining an acceptable outward demeanour and laying bare our inner impulses…

for “reforming binaries,” or analyzing closely, begins with first locating a range of opposing categories (p. 94). This allows a writer to “uncover oppositions in your subject matter that might function as organizing contrasts” (p. 95). The second step is defining key terms within the binaries. This permits a writer to understand each binary at a deeper level than just distinguishing contrasts (p. 95). The third step is a lot like the first in that it asks the author to question binary terms.…

I think what Foucault really means here is getting us away from seen power as something as a particular person comes in and snitches up instead of seeing power as everywhere. If that's the case then a simple "binary and all-encompassing opposition between rulers and ruled" has to be done away with. The models of the rulers snitches up power and exerting over the ruled has to be done away…

The film industry produces popular representations of a variety of social and cultural experiences that reach large audiences. In certain films, these representations are negative and have the power to misrepresent a group of people. Throughout the history of film, the portrayal of people with disabilities has included narratives that do not necessarily reflect the diverse experience of disability. These narratives are constructed around reductive images that exist to serve the film’s purpose…

dynamism, while maintaining stability. To start, coalitional politics embody queer community dynamism in a way that identity politics cannot. Considering the definition of queer as embodying multiple, non binary identities, identity politics’ concept of fixed identity is in direct opposition with the nature of the queer community. Because queer does not entail any definite identity other than the deviation from what is considered normal, it would be especially pernicious for the queer…

Plato explores many themes throughout his dialogues, particularly the contrast between Sophistry and Philosophy. His dialogues never shy away from this complex difference, but rather, the problem is presented with care. However, this does not always lead to a simplistic differentiation. The difficulty of the problem is heightened, instead of being resolved. Many individuals, upon reading Plato’s dialogues, would confuse sophistry with philosophy, based on the fact that both use rhetoric.…

all while serving its own imperialist schema. While I agree with the argument that the West is responsible for a number of injustices against “orient,” namely that the West created a binary division of the world in order to commit and justify violence towards the “other,” Said himself is a perpetrator of the same binaries he cautions his audience to think against. Further, Said names Herodotus as the chief perpetrator of early Orientalism, but in his…

“‘black and dirty’” (Baldwin, emphasis added). The older brother is twisting the screws of self-hatred harder, damaging and skewing her perception, not only her of sexuality, but of her race. Again, this is not a white man forcing to light the binary oppositions correlated with sexuality, gender, and race, but a black male…

Nature reclaims technology through artificial intelligence of Virtual Reality headset wearables. This assignment will give, in detail, whether nature and technology are positioned as binary or opposites. Furthermore, a design or artwork of a form of interactive technology will be included, to constitute the relationship between human user and that interactive technology. Also the assignment will be focusing in depth towards the meaning or definitions for the words ‘technological’, ‘nature’ and…

The origin of Postcolonial criticism was marked, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, by critics’ efforts to “undermine the text of colonial authority as well as to install a distance from the concepts of anticolonialist theory” (Parry, 2004: 67). It was referred to as ‘colonial discourse analysis’. Postcolonial criticism emerged with Edward W. Said’s Orientalism, it acquired the name ‘postcolonialism’ in the late 1980s. It is concerned with historical, political, cultural and textual outcomes of…