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September 22, 2005
Practices of Looking (Introduction)
The practices of looking introduction was very interesting. It explained how our culture today is definitely a visual one. This is due to the popularity of television, computers, and the media. People commonly use images to express themselves everyday.
I thought that it was interesting how the older definition of culture involved "fine" arts like painting, literature, music and philosophy, which was primarily reserved for people of a higher class. The new definition of culture is shared practices of a group, community, or society through visual aural, and textual world of representations. This new definition involves a much broader range of ideas, showing that "culture is progress".
The exciting thing about culture is that it is constantly changing and will never remain the same. Culture is now much more diverse, although it does focus primarily on visual images. In our society today we communicate visually, it is just something that is natural to us. I know that I watch a ton of television and get most of my information there relating to what is going on in the world, or what are the latest fashion trends. This is just our way of communicating, and I know that as time goes on culture will progress even more and who knows where we'll be.
--Yasmin
Posted by lcisperez at September 22, 2005 10:28 AM