A fun seminar I organized for a media activism course at Ryerson University.

1. co-creating resistance
/civic and public space

2. why does our work matter?

3. “The very concept of ideology implies a
kind of basic, constitutive naiveté: the
misrecognition of its own presuppositions,
of its own effective conditions, a distance,
a divergence between so-called social
reality and our distorted representation,
our false consciousness of it.”
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– SLAVOJ ZIZEK
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4. “Systems of thoughts composed of ideas,
attitudes, courses of action, beliefs and
practices that systematically construct the
subjects and the worlds of which they speak.”
– MICHEL FOUCAULT
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5. “ The semiological sign is also, like its
model, compounded of a signifier and
a signified (the colour of a light, for
instance, is an order to move on, in the
Highway Code), but it differs from it at
the level of its substances.”
– ROLAND BARTHES
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9. What does Reena mean by space?
“Aesthetics and oral transmission can in the
imagining of another kind of social /civic space.”

10. It’s your turn.

11. “The starting point for orientation
is the point from which the world
unfolds: the here of the body and
the where of its dwelling.”
– SARA AHMED