boo boo bear 1-31

I have a couple different thoughts to add about last class, the 31st. First of all when we first got to class Dr. Rog gave us this quote,

“The ordinary critic… And the author are equally remote from a true appreciation of the work.”

I believe our instructions were to write down what we this quote meant to each one of us personally. As I stared at the quote awkwardly for a couple minutes, my sheet of paper remained blank. I couldn’t really get a grasp of the quote and what it meant. As everyone started to give their ideas on the quote it became a little clearer to me as to what the quote was saying. However, one small thing bothered me about this conversation. When Dr. Rog started to break down some of the words that make this quote hard to grasp, such as ordinary critic or true appreciation, he said that some people would say “EVERYONE IS A CRITIC”. As he said this I noticed around the room many people were nodding their heads in agreement. I don’t because in this case, if everyone were a critic, this quote would really be saying that NO ONE could truly appreciate the work. This quote could be read as,

“Everyone is remote from a true appreciation of the work.”

My second thought goes back to last semester during CMC 100, as I was growing as a student I would struggle to ever look at advertisements, television, and commercials the same as I did before taking the course. I was always being critical of these forms of media noticing things such as the objectification of women or hegemonic ideas, ect. (I know most of you felt the same way). After learning about the different types of postmodern architecture I noticed myself seeing a building and trying to figure out whether or not it falls into what we have talked about. The time that sticks out to me the most was when I saw that weird metallic art statue/sculpture thing close to the soccer field right in the middle of our beautiful old Spanish Mediterranean campus I couldn’t help but laugh and think of the Louve’ (spelling?) and that huge glass pyramid in front of it. I know its art but both just seem totally out of place to me.