| Resources : Velazquez painting the king ; the grief and the headhunter rage by Rosaldo ; Paris the invisible city by brimo latoun ; capital by Karl Marx chp 10 In the Velazquez painting the King is the organizing force behind the elements on the canvas and off, Velazquez was the court painter, though he is only glimpsed like a ghost in the mirror in the background of the painting and then only if one unties the complicated network of sight lines strung across the canvas surface. Rosaldo would describe this as a field of social relations. There are similar sort of appearances and disappearances in the other readings: Michelle, AS/PK in the North Sea, Marx’s coat, Robinson Crusoe, and Mills’ library. Choose an appearance/disappearance of your choice and explicate the background machinery, accumulations and (de) accumulations, rage and other powerful emotions, where the vanished went, and the effects of commodity fetishization. Situate your answer in a specific landscape or social field. There must be a conclusion to your essay. Choose an appearance and disappearance of commodity fetish or machinery to guide you across the readings . ANOTHER OPTION is readingg across these theories of ideas come up with a question Of how machinery or fetishism commodity appears and disappears . |
