1. First, watch the video lecture for this week
2. Next, read the required readings for this week.
1. Deleuze and Guattari. Section on "Faciality", in A Thousand Plateaus.
2. Bahktin, Mikhail. Rabelais and His World.
3. Preziosi, Donald. 2011. Artifice and Paradox.
2. Bahktin, Mikhail. Rabelais and His World.
3. Preziosi, Donald. 2011. Artifice and Paradox.
3. Third, contemplate these questions on your own or with some friends
1. Explain Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the 'faciality.'
2. Watch Dr. Cambre's photo collages again and discuss what visual impressions you get from the various ways members of anonymous present themselves.
3. Define the term "witnessing". How does "witnessing" apply to the phenomenon of Anonymous?
4. Explain what is meant by the term "artifice". Give three examples of artifice in your everyday life and explain why they count as artifice.
5. Using Jakobson's table of semiotics, find one example from contemporary pop culture to fill in each block, in other words find one example each of: icon, symbol, index, artifice.
2. Watch Dr. Cambre's photo collages again and discuss what visual impressions you get from the various ways members of anonymous present themselves.
3. Define the term "witnessing". How does "witnessing" apply to the phenomenon of Anonymous?
4. Explain what is meant by the term "artifice". Give three examples of artifice in your everyday life and explain why they count as artifice.
5. Using Jakobson's table of semiotics, find one example from contemporary pop culture to fill in each block, in other words find one example each of: icon, symbol, index, artifice.
4. Then, check out these case studies and given the lecture and the required readings for the week, answer the questions below.
1. Read this article and comment on how the media 'frames' Anonymous. What sorts of semiotic tools can we use to analyze the media framing of the group?
2. Discuss this product: the anti-surveillance identiy mask. Why would this be of interest to people nowadays? How can we relate this to the goals and aims of Anonymous with their self-presentation? http://www.cnet.com/news/urme-anti-surveillance-mask-lets-you-pass-as-someone-else/
3. Watch the movie V is for Vendetta and discuss the similarirites between the group anonymous and the anarchist grou in the movie. How was the image of the mask in the movie used in cinematic ways to represent the goals and aims of the group?
2. Discuss this product: the anti-surveillance identiy mask. Why would this be of interest to people nowadays? How can we relate this to the goals and aims of Anonymous with their self-presentation? http://www.cnet.com/news/urme-anti-surveillance-mask-lets-you-pass-as-someone-else/
3. Watch the movie V is for Vendetta and discuss the similarirites between the group anonymous and the anarchist grou in the movie. How was the image of the mask in the movie used in cinematic ways to represent the goals and aims of the group?