From what I understood in the first session of constellation was that post structuralism is how you view things and the connotations that you give things. We don’t all view everything in the same light, 10 people could look at the same piece of art work and each one could see different meaning, representations and theories.
Barthes conclusion of post structuralism was ‘a theory or group of theories, concerning the relationship between human beings, the world and the practice of making and producing meaning’. I believe that he is saying that we create our own meaning behind everything that we come across and depending on who you are how you view things and were you are in the world changes how you create your meanings.
In the session we watched a clip about how we perceive news. Us being the consumer we are fed information from the media, the media is not necessarily always telling the truth. The way that they word the titles and the pictures they show us leave us to only think in one way. This is they handing us one meaning and not leaving the meaning of things open for us to interoperate in our own way. By doing this it allows them to cover up what is really going on in the world so that there isn’t mass panic between the people.
After realising this is what is happening in our society it makes me question what I am reading and seeing in the media. It also intrigues me to search deeper and find real answers and meaning for myself rather than just agreeing with what I am being ‘forced’ to read.
George Orwell sums up my ideas of this very neatly in a quote ‘we are consumers are feed snippets of info that are twisted and not necessarily true’.
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