Starfish 4/10

Thursdays class we covered a lot of material. We finished up Bordieu, and I kept making connections between his quotes and things we have discussed in CMC 200 this year. In researching media, we discussed how the news constantly says it is giving us what we want, but I as well as Bordieu do not agree with this. Who cares about Brittney Spears? When it comes to the news, the important things are not which celebrity is currently in rehab, but the things that affect us all. “The effect is censorship, which journalists practice without even being aware of it. They retain only things capable of interesting them and keeping their attention…and they reject as insignificant or remain indifferent to symbolic expressions that ought to reach the population as a whole” (330).

After going over Derrida in class, I finally could grasp what I had read the previous day and his ideas and theories make a lot of sense to me. In language and with signs or words, there is always something missing, “the gap.” We sometimes are able to see the gap, and sometimes we see it subconsciously. Derrida says we must look at what is behind the text or what is not being said. I link this to Machery, who said, “What is important in the work is what it does not say.” “It is the rupture (or the gap) which must be studied