BONUS #12

Randy Marsh exemplified the ontological of post modernism because although he knew he was not a racist, he owned up to his new nickname as “nigger guy.” For example, he went to a comedy club with mostly black people and made a little rap of apologies for saying “nigger” on TV. He went to a Black Coalition meeting to apologize to all the blacks in South Park for his behavior. The critical post-modernism I saw in the show was when the Southern hillbillies were out to kill Randy (and any other person) whose name is “nigger guy,” when the Seinfeld guy showed up and shooed the hillbillies away. It reminded me of the Chappelle Show episode we watched when white guys were at a gas station and they saw Chappelle and were ready to beat him up, until they heard all the “white power” talk coming out oh his mouth...too funny. The aesthetic post-modernism that was seen when Randy went to the Laugh Factory and Chris Rock? like person was there making jokes and then called Randy out for being “nigger guy” and kept poking jokes at him while everyone kept on laughing and laughing. But later on when he did it, no one laughed, they just stared. Also, the Jesse Jackson scene was a little absurd and later on, an authorial fallacy, because if Jesse Jackson accepted Randy’s apology by kissing his ass, then to Stan, Token should be okay with him now after the incident. But that doesn’t justify anything to Token.

QUESTION #1

The words with lower case letters represents the real. For example, Ted you are a man. It’s literal. The words with capital letters represent the word placement in discourse and/or culture. For example, it’s the concept of a man. Men are supposed too be masculine, chivalrous toward women, and dominant.

QUESTION #2

An “audience fallacy” is never assuming an interpretation is the only way. An “authorial fallacy” is not being able to argue an author’s point of view as the only view. An example of “audience fallacy” is “Gay marriages are immoral and 70% of Americans agree!” An example of an “authorial fallacy” is “Lindsey Lohan has made several great movie, but she is an alcoholic, drug addict, and vulgar so no one should go see her movies anymore. These examples are significant because they both are trying to convince us that their point of view is right.

QUESTION #3

The videos are the same in that they both have a black connotation. They are both stereotyping black lifestyle. “Ghetto Delta” clip directly explains how they like to “get their drink on,” chillin’ at their “crib,” and smoking a “flat spliff.” The “Get the education you need to get on with your life” clip indirectly explains the black lifestyle and person by having a black man attack the viewer about “sitting on the couch,” “watching TV,” watching their lives pass by, and spending time on the phone. They are different for the obvious reasons, one being the “Ghetto Delta” talking about airplanes and vacation with ghetto talk and the second, being “Get the education you need to get on with your life” talking about going back to school and the black man is speaking eloquently to sound educated to make his point clear to the viewer.

QUESTION #4

The image of the pipe and its translated text “this is not a pipe” implies that is is not just a pipe but a symbol of masculinity and/or identity. For example, pipes are associated with older men and sophistication. Men who smoke pipes are intelligent and wise. It is significant in cultural studies because the direct text saying “this is not a pipe” makes the viewer look at the painting, not as a painting, but pondering what more it could mean

QUESTION #5

Ideology is common sense and hegemony is maintaing common sense. Hegemony is when subjects all agree on the same thing. The urinal game is using ideology to pick which free urinal you would choose if one, two, or three people were using the others. To reify hegemony the person must pick the farthest urinal from the other. For example, if one person is using one, you would use the one farthest from him or if there is two people next to each other you would pick the farthest one from them. If there are people in every other one the answer is either you don’t use any of the free ones.

QUESTION #6

In Conan O’Brian’s American Express commercial there is elements of the exotic (indian) culture put into a custom. The custom being a curtain and all the places he goes to make it. It portrays globalization in a good way because of all the jobs he goes through to make the curtain he uses when he is in the US. Also, he goes to each place to get the materials and helps make his curtain which can be seen as sharing their “technology” on how to make a curtain. Conan also uses American conversation with the indian women when he was dying his curtain which is taking US culture and putting in with indian. It is also exotic because he starts off wearing jeans and a t-shirt with a jacket, but then changes into an Indian outfit of a loose shirt and pant. and he uses indian language and American language when conversing with them. The end of the clip represents all the hard-work that it took to make the curtain by the indians and like Conan dreamt that he was apart of it.