BiegieGo 11/22

"All good things got to come to an end"--Jackson Browne
We are very close to ending this wonderful journey of theorist. In the beginning of this class I had a very bad feeling that I was not going to understand a lot of what was going to take place but now late in the semester I am a confident student that has learned a lot! It funny to think back and see the entire list of theorist that have been learned and be able to relate something in my everyday life to one for them. I believe I am going to leave this class feeling brighter than everyone else in our school. :P. this week we learned about theorist Bourdieu and Derrida. Al though I was only able to attend one of the classes this week I learned that Bourdieu looks at TV and what it is telling us. Professor Cummings just reiterated what dr. Rog had told us in the beginning of the semester and that is that TV tells us what we all ready know and that is why networks like ABC, NBC, and CNN are so successful in the business.
People don’t like to hear what they don’t know. We feel I like it goes against our belief system and is challenges us and we don’t like to be challenged. We discussed what a trope was and it is some compact information. We also discussed systems and Bourdieu tells us that it is because of systems is why we have censorship. He also looks about how there is so much not being said on TV that our society does not see. What is the real? What is the truth? As Barthes would say, where is the structuralism in our world???