“The Separation Between Meaning and Its Signifiers and Identity as the Form Outside: The Possibilities Within Identity Politics”
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SummaryA country subjects itself to the hegemony of essentialism through its use of borders to define its geography and its attempts to effectively identify itself through the distillation of its dominant cultural characteristics. It subscribes to the notion of hierarchy through the resulting stagnation of quantification and demobilization of investment in the development and urbanization of a country’s geographic location. Every singularizing act is tied to essentialism through a relation to identity as an ultimate truth or an ultimate goal. Prior to World War II, countries subscribed to the shared language of identification: borders, history, geography and economic power, as well as a relation through dominant and subversive countries.
Table of Contents- World War II exploded this system of singular identity and imploded a general conviction of absolute truth, or essentialism.
- The singularity of identity and the separation between thought and reality, or the separation between meaning and language, are starting points.
- In order to maintain a sense of achievement, the ‘truth' must always remain in sight.
- The direct objectives of form are contrasted by the seemingly contradictory motives of the woman.
- In order to 'jump out of the fighting line' identity must be broken down and restructured; identity must fail as signifiers fail.
- But the Pacheco's have been depoliticized, their mobility has scattered.
- The most literal 'educational' attempt was a pristine four-foot by five-foot, color photograph.
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