Imitation

1. Consult your reading from last week from Foucault and this week’s reading from Judith Butler. Using direct quotes from both Butler and Foucault, explain how Butler comes from of a Foucauldian tradition. What do they have in common? (4 marks, maximum 300 words) It is evident in Butler’s reading that she comes from a Foucauldian tradition. Foucault’s idea that discourse is “controlled, selected, organized” (Foucault, 1996) in the sense that what comes to be accepted as truth is based on a…

affections and diseases?” One can clearly see how the calculative part is meant to guide and drive both the desiderative and the spirited parts of the one’s soul. By watching The Truman Show, one’s calculate soul is given substantial information of imitation and right and wrong that can help guide one’s life. By establishing a strong calculative part of the soul, man can achieve justice within his own soul. Socrates describes the just indivudal…

But Helen’s drug/speech has a curious effect upon its audience. It provokes a second recollection of Odysseus’ exploits at Troy, this one by Menelaus. His tale is clearly the doublet of his wife’s, since they both begin with the same words: “but such a thing as this the strong man did and endured” (Odyssey iv 242 = iv 271). But this doublet counteracts the rhetoric of its model. For Menelaus belies Helen’s claim of new-found loyalty to the Greeks, when he mentions (apparently en passant) her…

Faith, Imitation, and Imagination Faith, what people personally believe, exists independently of whether or not people share with others. It can be confidence in something that is not seen, such as a promise and an engagement; it can be a belief that has not been proven, for example, a religious belief shared by a group of people who work together to provide support for going deeper into their similar faith. In “God, Science, and Imagination”,Wendell Berry indicates that fundamentalists of both…

their youth and rules in their old age. He goes through their education process in Book VII, but leaves his ideas on poetry for Book X. In general, Socrates says that poetry should be banned from the Kallipolis since he thinks of it as a form of imitation. However, if someone were able to prove that poetry was beneficial, it would be allowed into the city. After this, Socrates explains why the soul is immortal and that just people will be rewarded, while unjust are punished. Somehow, this leads…

differently. Humans have a quality that is so unique it separates them from everything else. And that quality is the ability to imitate. Susan Blackmore in “Strange Creatures” dives into the idea of human imitation and, “that imitation is what makes us special” (34). Blackmore provides the definition of imitation which is to copy exactly what the other person is doing and in doing so information is transferred from one to another. With this information the other person is influenced and he or…

Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Slater uses Mario Grotta as an example because of the simple fact that he cannot live his life to the fullest extent due to his disorder. Similarly, Blackmore argues that memes negatively affects humans because they rely on imitation and can not think for themselves. Mario becomes the first American psychiatric patients to undergo such a experimental procedure.…

Plato’s Imitation Attributes of Music– Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Plato stated that his view of art is the imitation of reality, which is an imitation of the ultimate reality known as the Forms that exist in a heaven-like realm. Therefore, Plato believes that artists only imitate an object, which is an imitation of the Forms. As a result, the artist does not truly understand the object they are imitating because they lack the knowledge of the reality of objects.…

powers of imitation, have become just the physical ‘hosts’ needed for the memes to get around.This is how the world looks from a ‘meme’s eye view’”(37).Our entire interaction with the world driven by the…

diffusion deals with the distribution of an idea or social practice between its societies. Tarde believed that for social change to happen an innovation needed to be distributed through the process of imitation. He believed that individuals emulate beliefs or personal desires through this. This idea of imitation was published in his first edition. In his second edition, which is when his work had most effect on diffusion, Tarde discusses a system of sociology in which he explains how social…