By Stuart Hall
This broad-ranging textual content bargains a entire define of the way visible photographs, language and discourse paintings as `systems of representation'.
Individual chapters discover: illustration as a signifying perform in a wealthy range of social contexts and institutional websites; using images within the development of nationwide identification and tradition; different cultures in ethnographic museums; fantasies of the racialized `Other' in well known media, movie and snapshot; the development of masculine identities in discourses of purchaser tradition and ads; and the gendering of narratives in tv cleaning soap operas.
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I cannot think or speak or draw with an actual rose. And if someone says to me that there is no such word as 'rose' for a plant in her culture, the actual plant in the garden cannot resolve the failure of communication between us. Within the conventions of the different language codes we are using, we are both right -and for us to understand each other, one of us must learn the code linking the flower with the word for it in the other's culture. The second approach to meaning in representation argues the opposite case.
Mathematical form' is used by Cobin to distort the painting so as to bring out a particular meaning. Can a distorted meaning in pmnting be 'true'? the meaning of the difference between 'creatural' and 'geometric' space: the language of painting creates its own kind of space. If necessary. work through the extract again. picking up these specific points. The social constructionist view of language and representation which we have been discussing uwes a great deal to the work and influence of the Swiss linguist.
44 RfPRI Sl N I liON CULIURALI\(PRI ~~NIATIONS AND SIGNI~YING I'RACfl The first point to note. then, is the shift of attention in Foucault from 'language' to 'discourse' He studied not language, but discourse as a system of representation. Normally, the term 'discourse' is used as a linguistic concept. It simply moans passages of connected writing or speech. Michel Foucault, however, gave it a different meaning. What interested him were the rules and practices that produced meaningful statements and regulated discourse in different historical periods.