Benny Deng
ZIttel, De Certeau, Focault
Can You See It?
I-
Zittel (Homestead Unit)
a.
Disassembly
b.
Creates inside and outside
II-
De Certeau (Spatial Stories)
a.
Space is a Place, Place is a Space
b.
Tours and maps
i. Specificity
or generality
ii. Primary
vs secondary source
III-
Focault (Docile Bodies)
a.
the individual is created from the mass
b.
Control of activity
c.
Discipline- recognized normality
How is space/place perceived?
Boundaries can be created through anything, but how do they
effect the way we behave?
I think you can find more ways to integrate characteristics of Zittel's work in how you're looking at de Certeau and Focault. For instance if the homestead unit can be dissassembled how does that change the boundaries on one's body, how does it change the spatial story of the setting?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ann here and the question she offers is a very good one.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have much substance here in your questions (they are vague and overly broad) and as a result there isn't much clarity about where you'll go with this. Your use of de Certeau doesn't seem to demonstrate understanding of the work, so you should return to his essay and talk to me to help you figure out what you actually mean to say.
Please review my comments on your initial Homestead Units post, and use that to help guide a more considered, well-grounded set of questions and analysis. Avoid speaking so broadly about your texts and relying on conjecture as you do in your second post on the units--"imagine walking across the plains"--because in so doing you lose the interest of your reader and you come across as trying to fill space rather than engage the details of your chosen work and texts.
Details from Zittel's work, her interviews, her statements in "these things I know for sure" should guide your questions and your eventual analysis, and every paragraph in your essay should be framed in terms of these details and the concepts from your critical sources. Without these details, and without clear definitions of your critical concepts (with concrete references to the text), your writing will lack credibility and interest, and your argument will have nowhere of substance to go.
Zittel's work is complex and nuanced, and thus your analysis of her work must be sufficiently nuanced and complex. It can't be glossed over or referred to in passing. The details and concepts that she asserts in the work and her words need to be pointed to, cited, and then analyzed directly. That is the task of the essay.
Benny~ You can focus on the details of her installation. Like how these details are controlling human behavior, what they are functioning in daily life, or where they can be reflected from our daily life. For instance, the installation effects our behavior just like x impacts our life. And then you can make a conclusion of all these impacts, which can be the general idea of this installation.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you can relate each of these things to each other. How is Foucault related to Zittel and de Certeau and vice versa. How does these two text come together through Zittels' work?
ReplyDelete-Tiffany