But looking at it from a post modern viewpoint one must realise that "it" is a social construct simultaneous limited by, and limiting the society in which it emerges. Add to this Concerns about 'the death of the author, in which Roland Barthes reminds us that the author of any media ceases to have 'authority' over the text (if indeed they ever had any "the intentional fallacy"), and , as Stuart Hall points out with his famous Encoding/Decoding Theory of communication, that the exact message that any person will 'get' depends on various factors, social economic personal etc which will influence their reading, and we start to see just how complicated the 'sender-message-receiver' model really is. In this way their is no single "it" to but rather a pluracy of "its" each as valid as the last. This, of course, calls into question whether there was any 'it' to start with and if there was , do it still exist.
Comments 2
Add to this Concerns about 'the death of the author, in which Roland Barthes reminds us that the author of any media ceases to have 'authority' over the text (if indeed they ever had any "the intentional fallacy"), and , as Stuart Hall points out with his famous Encoding/Decoding Theory of communication, that the exact message that any person will 'get' depends on various factors, social economic personal etc which will influence their reading, and we start to see just how complicated the 'sender-message-receiver' model really is.
In this way their is no single "it" to but rather a pluracy of "its" each as valid as the last.
This, of course, calls into question whether there was any 'it' to start with and if there was , do it still exist.
Reply
my cats breath smells like cat food.
Reply
Leave a comment