Interpellation

creatures—not human beings who had the capacity for knowledge beyond the arts. These ideals were not being challenged much by women; in fact, women did not see anything wrong with them because they were taught that it was the norm. This is where interpellation comes in—where it has always been in regards to women’s agency. The idea…

Suzanne Collins in her novel The Hunger Games offers a critique on Western culture and civilization. In this novel through the portrayal of dystopian society that is driven by technology and consumerism Suzanne Collins explores and advocates against the commodification of youths and neglect for environment. The Hunger Games, first of a trilogy, set in a time after environmental havoc and massacre, replaced by a dystopian country Panem, comprised of 12 suffering districts ruled by the Capitol…

Althusserian Marxist concepts, especially Marxist definition of ideology? Each of the three writers have their own views in their arguments about how Queer Theory intersects with Althusserian Marxism (or Marxism in general) and the concepts of “interpellation” and “ideology”. These queer theories are compatible with Althusserian Marxism…

In our modern society, we are surrounded with digital media, which includes advertisements. They are simply all over the places that people are constantly exposed to many different types of advertisements with or without knowing. Good examples are, daily digital gadgets like mobile phones, Ipads, or even on the transportations; buses, trains...etc. Each and every advertisement we see everyday, there is already a target audience whom they have designed the ad for. The advertisement I chose for…

The advertisement used for this semiotic reading is for the Schick Company that manufactures razor blades for shaving unwanted hair. The ad is located in Shape magazine, which endorses fitness, and supplies tips to help people keep their bodies in shape. Easy access makes this physical copy of the advertisement attainable to people who are most likely working out in gyms, or is insecure with their bodies. However, the marketing of this particular ad is towards women who want to keep their bikini…

Marxism is ideas developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-nineteenth century. The economic world becomes the base for the rest of the world or the “superstructure produced by the base” (Parker 221). This concept of economics being the cause for everything else is called “economic determinism or economism” (221). To Marx, this concept began with what he called “division of labor” that led into the development of different classes, which included capitalist merchants and workers.…

Name Tutor Course Date Karl Marx and Social Media Ideologies In their paper “The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas,” Marx and Engels argue that the nobility or the highest social class present determines the ideas of a particular society. These ideas enable the few members ruling class to control the large masses of the working people. Additionally, Marx and other socialists believed in total control of the media to disseminate only government-approved information. However, such control also…

Charley Du Prof. Peter Katzenstein GOVT 1817 Nov. 17 2015 Neo-Constructivism: The Propagation of Domestic Politics onto the International Stage The Cuban Missile Crisis is, for many, one single incident the Cold War in which the threat of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated the closest to the point of no return. The end of the incident during the presidency of John F. Kennedy inspired a general change in attitudes from both the American and Soviet sides that…

government-sponsored campaign called <> as part of a nation branding effort (Anholt, 2011). Is this not precisely the problem at stake during the argument that erupts at the police van in one of the early scenes of the film, where an Althusserian police interpellation triggers an unpleasant exchange between Pascal (Regi’s brother) and a policewoman, with Régis getting involved later, criticizing Pascal for having been argumentative against the authority: -Policewoman: What’s your name?…

Tashunka Witko, better regarded by his anglicized name, “Crazy Horse”, was a Lakota warrior instrumental in the defeat of General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. “Tashunka Witko” directly translates to “His-Horse-Is-Crazy”, but does not ring a bell as proficiently as the name “Crazy Horse." Furthermore, this Lakota Warrior was bestowed with the name “Crazy Horse” after he displayed himself as a competent warrior, and was born with a different name: “In the Wilderness.” In fact, the…