"He (Lacan) was most concerned with how human beings come to imagine themselves as unique individuals even as they are given identity within the social structures of Western capitalism."
- This is funny. Is it saying that we are ridiculous to think we are unique? In some ways, I think so. There are so many of us, is it really possible to be truly unique, probably in very slim amount of cases.
"Docile bodies of the modern state - citizens who participate in the ideologies of the society through cooperation and desire to fit in and conform."
- I have to face it, I am a docile body...
"Photography has been used to document foreign cultures since its beginnings, and hence to provide visual codes of difference between the anthropologists and their subjects."
- Is this a bad thing? Yes, there is a certain amount of power in saying that what you do is different, so then you automatically compare what you do to what others do and then decide which is better. But I think there is more power in looking at another culture and just simply thinking that, well we all do things differently, so what?
"We believe we know what culture is because we can identify its opposite (nature), thus difference is essential to its meaning."
- I like this definition. It is very true that we identify the differences between each other. So that is how we identify what we do differently.
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