Disaster (Categorical)

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1. 

   Jenna Wasserman

   November 16, 2014 at 2:05 pm

   FORMLESS EMBLEMS (TESTIMONIAL)

   Form­less Value-Page 132: “Form­less gives access to the aban­doned, neglected mod­ern sacred, and the MEmo­r­ial fol­lows up by artic­u­lat­ing the unac­knowl­edged val­ues to be found at this level of experience”

   “Kindertitenlieder”—Page 134: “A first step of a Memo­r­ial is to notice an abject loss that the com­mu­nity acknowl­edges is a prob­lem but that is not accepted as a sac­ri­fice on behalf of a belief or value struc­tur­ing a group sub­ject… The Memo­r­ial addresses abjec­tion in both indi­vid­ual and national iden­tity, hav­ing to do with a lack of fit, a cer­tain dis­par­ity between the two sides of what is com­pared in an iden­tity condition”

   Sub­lime Abuse—BLINDNESS
   • Page 136—“The pur­pose of a Memo­r­ial is to wit­ness and tes­tify regard­ing the event of a pub­lic prob­lem, to shift it from the pri­vate, indi­vid­ual sta­tus of one at a time, each case in iso­la­tion, to a cumu­la­tive pub­lic sta­tus of sac­ri­fice on behalf of an unrep­re­sented national value. A Memo­r­ial attempts to bring such abject losses to the atten­tion of the pub­lic with­out trans­port­ing them into abstrac­tions or ideals”
   • Page 137—Testimonial (mys­tory applied to a pub­lic pol­icy issue) dra­ma­tizes the blind­ness… names a feel­ing that the Memo­r­ial exposes, exter­nal­izes, artic­u­lates”
   **Through com­po­si­tion of an indi­vid­u­als story that reflects the col­lec­tive value, a tes­ti­mony states what we (the col­lec­tive) are overlooking

   Pulsation—Page 140 “a MEmo­r­ial is a car­tog­ra­phy of ATH, trac­ing the paths join­ing symp­tom of a value (until it is given col­lec­tive recog­ni­tion as such) there is no hope of alter­ing the behav­ior. The goal of cumu­la­tive Memo­ri­als is col­lec­tive self-knowledge. In the tes­ti­mony, the maker gives evi­dence, tes­ti­fies to the eth­i­cal expe­ri­ence, the feel­ing of duty that abuses me (if it does). My iden­ti­fi­ca­tion with (recog­ni­tion of) this dis­as­ter out­side me as a frac­tal mea­sure of the dis­as­ter within makes writable the cat­e­gory of jus­tice, and is the point of depar­ture for an elec­trate post­na­tional identity”.

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2. 

   Mikki Sachs

   November 17, 2014 at 2:24 pm

   Ch. 5 Notes:

   This chap­ter mainly talks about MEmo­r­ial as an event and how it is val­ued in a spe­cific way or by cer­tain peo­ple. We need to deter­mine what we are “over­look­ing” in our event and why some events are not gained by a col­lec­tive sta­tus. We need to link indi­vid­ual iso­lated inci­dents with a col­lec­tive per­spec­tive. Events need to have this group affect and influ­ence in order to gain the acknowl­edge­ment that this event may need in order to “stand out.” We don’t need to con­vince the com­mu­nity that an event is hap­pen­ing but instead show the value of the topic.

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3. 

   Colin Weber

   November 18, 2014 at 3:41 pm

   Chap­ter 6
   –Y as idea or eidos, shape
   –Ensta­sis: a dialec­ti­cal pro­ce­dure in aristotle’s logic by which one adduces a counter expam­ple to refute a claim of uni­ver­sal­ity for a rule.
   –Egency: an insti­tu­tional entity cre­ated to orga­nize the MEmo­r­ial pro­gram with­ing a vir­tual con­sul­tancy.
   –The image of the Y from the chal­lenger
   -“A graphic depic­tions of vast power gone berserk… seen by mil­lions and inspir­ing one” (156)
   –What does “Y” spell?
   –The ques­tion of why the pre­ventable tragedies were allowed
   -”These deaths are a sac­ri­fice made on the behalf of Amer­i­can national iden­tity” (157)
   –Michael Jack­son and O.J. Simp­sons’ attempt to help was $incere
   –The wish switch
   –What is the tra­jec­tory of pain through me?
   –the idea that tragedies define soci­ety
   -“I don’t explain Bradley’s abuse, it explains me”

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4. 

   Whitney Schauer

   November 19, 2014 at 10:02 am

   Pg. 147 ”  I am think­ing not about Bradley McGee but with him.“
   – Get a sense of mood or feel­ing rather than think­ing about the sit­u­a­tion
   – Tran­si­tion­ing from think­ing to feeling

   Agency

   The let­ter Shape of Y
   – ‘Y’ pro­duces mean­ing effects in the col­lec­tive beyond intent, with­out under­stand­ing, with­out indi­vid­ual con­scious­ness
   – Every dis­as­ter for every per­son raises the ques­tion “why“
   – The ques­tion of why the pre­ventable tragedies were allowed
   -”These deaths are a sac­ri­fice made on the behalf of Amer­i­can national iden­tity” (157)
   ○ Ex: Michael Jack­son and O.J Simpson

   Egency
   – “insti­tu­tional entity cre­ated to orga­nize the Memo­r­ial pro­gram within a vir­tual con­sul­tancy“
   From text to felt

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5. 

   Luke Paulus

   November 19, 2014 at 1:55 pm

   To define a thing (bes­tim­men) is made pos­si­ble by attune­ment (stim­mung) of state of mind through mood.

   MEmo­r­ial: does not define or ana­lyze the dis­as­ter, rather it dis­cov­ers its mood.
   –Can be dis­cov­ered by look­ing at reac­tion of peo­ple online, as well as your own reac­tion to it
   –Addresses gap between the dis­as­ter, and the abil­ity of the pub­lic to respond (not the gov­ern­ment, nec­es­sar­ily)
   –Does not offer a rea­son for the dis­as­ter, but a hypoth­e­sis of why soci­etal val­ues allow the dis­as­ter to reoccur

   The basic act of MEmo­ri­al­iz­ing: accept an event — any event that I rec­og­nize (that looks at me) — as the vehi­cle in a fig­ure whose tenor is soul, sub­ject, spirit. Explore the prop­er­ties of psy­che by means of the inven­tory of attrib­utes — acci­dents– avail­able in the vehi­cle. Learn every­thing about this event as a pro­vi­sional con­tainer that per­mits the feel­ing of Being to come to aware­ness. Com­pare these attrib­utes with those pro­duced by other online. Nego­ti­ate. Are we enraged today?

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6. 

   Mikki Sachs

   November 19, 2014 at 2:26 pm

   Ch. 6 Notes:

   This chap­ter talks about this pat­tern effect and gath­er­ing effect and the “mood of the dis­as­ter.” If there is a col­lec­tive sta­tus toward a cer­tain sit­u­a­tion the mood might be that they agree or dis­agree toward the MEmo­r­ial pre­sented. We need con­crete details to con­duct the mood and spirit of the event. We need to make this event vis­i­ble to the pub­lic by dis­play­ing these sen­sory details to con­vey what is happening.

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7. 

   Chelsey Hill

   November 19, 2014 at 10:32 pm

   Ideals of Soci­ety: things that we accept as a whole as okay even though we know they are morally wrong

   The inter­ac­tion between the two cop Miche­lin men: the boss cop used a lot of pro­fan­ity and was rude and demand­ing of his fel­low cop/understudy. Stereo­types of cops: rude, eat a lot of junk (“salad and water” walks out with soda and fries”), are allowed to break the law with­out reper­cus­sions (crash­ing into other car– “he was in my lane”). Seen again when they run over the MandM char­ac­ters with­out bat­ting and eye
   The Pringles face: the Stigma of the “pedo stache” any many who has a mus­tache like that is some sort of crazed, sex-focused many”. maybe less directly related to the idea of lost inno­cence– I relate the idea of pringles to child­hood and fun fam­ily events and by mak­ing him slap a “woman’s ass” its tear­ing that inno­cence away from me.
   The wait­ress: I’m not sure what brand she rep­re­sents, but it refers to the stereo­type of all wait­resses are sluts/ bad girls who smock cig­a­rettes and flaunt there bod­ies. “the way she says “oh my christ” makes her sound dainty and frag­ile. The rea­son they have her com­ment­ing on the crash scene makes her involved/interested in the drama.
   The lit­tle boys: always get­ting into trou­ble– relates directly to my con­cept of pub­lic edu­ca­tion reform– stigma that lit­tle boys are ram­bunc­tious and look for trou­ble to cause “look at all the guns, we need to get our­selves one of those” also in the zoo
   Ronald McDon­ald: hold­ing the lit­tle boy hostage– fast food is the cause of child­hood obesity

   The earth­quake and specif­i­cally the fall of Ronald McDon­ald– rep­re­sent the fall of the effec­tive­ness of adver­tis­ing and logos because of the infor­ma­tion over­load. There are so many dif­fer­ent sym­bols and emblems sat­u­rat­ing the cur­rent soci­ety that they are no longer hold­ing the atten­tion of the population/becoming irrel­e­vant. The adver­tis­ing game needs to take a major step up if it wants to main­tain the effectiveness.

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8. 

   Alex Denton

   November 20, 2014 at 9:31 pm

   Some thoughts on “Logo­rama” and how it con­nects to the text.

   From chap­ter six we have the “mood of dis­as­ter.” In Logo­rama it seems that there are two dis­as­ters. The dis­as­ter of the preva­lence of adver­tis­ing, and the fact that we accept this dom­i­na­tion of adver­tis­ing in our world.

   The mood of these dis­as­ters is totally over­whelm­ing. Every­thing from the build­ings, to char­ac­ters, to cars and guns are all some sort of logo.

   Not nec­es­sar­ily related to the text, but there was also a good bit of sym­bol­ism in Logo­rama. The most strik­ing was Ronald McDon­ald tak­ing the kid hostage. It seems to be a com­men­tary on the state of fast food and con­ve­nience on children.

   A lit­tle race com­ment too, int’s inter­est­ing that only the “black” cop gets shot. With a lit­tle stretch you could see that as Ronald and cor­po­ra­tions in gen­eral tar­get­ing minorities.

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