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on November 11, 2018

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Anthropomorphism and Double-Coding within Architecture // post blog

Anthropomorphism in architecture is a phenomenon in which a building, which is obviously non-human, is designed to have humanlike characteristics or to look like a human being. The building above is anthropomorphic because the two windows towards the upper right corner resemble eyes and the design between them resembles a nose. Anthropomorphism is a postmodernist phenomenon in architecture because of its playful nature. As a design, it does not do anything functional for the building. What it does do is grab the viewer's attention, which is something that postmodernists aim to accomplish with their artwork. Another phenomenon that occurs often in postmodern architecture is double-coding. Double-coding refers to the use of irony in architecture; typically architecture with this characteristic gives us more than one meaning. For example, from the outside, the building above has very contrasting looks. The material surrounding most of the building gives it a very industri...

GG Pre-Class Blog 10/31 (Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!)

First off.....Happy Halloween!!!!!!!! In “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” written by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, the case is made that our traditional art forms of media aren't cutting it as art anymore. “Culture today is infecting everything with sameness. Film, radio, and magazines form a system. Each branch of culture is unanimous within itself and all are unanimous together....Films and radio no longer need to present themselves as art… They call themselves industries…” (53). This is true. Today, television networks and film producers aim to make the big bucks and sell whatever will sell in the current market. Writers and cinematographers typically care more about the art perspective of these things, but they're typically not the one's in charge, unless a producer recognizes that an Academy Award promises a sellout. Films in particular have transformed, I'd say. Films that are considered art by the majority of so...

Sarah Ismail 11/28

“The commodification of Otherness has been so successful because it is offered as a new delight, more intense, more satisfying than normal ways of doing and feeling. Within commodity culture, ethnicity becomes spice, seasoning that can liven up the dull dish that is mainstream white culture” Hooks 308 In the quote above, Hooks claims that white culture has chosen to objectify Otherness because it brings something new and exciting to the table that white culture longs for. Rather than respecting those different ethnicities, white culture takes advantage of them and contorts them in order to fit them into their own culture, simultaneously dulling the very real ethnicities and using them to spice up their own. A prime example of this is when predominantly white television shows have one "token black character" in order to make the show appear more diverse and inclusive. Rather than actually having a diverse cast of actors, many shows include the token black friend in a show an...

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