Félix Guattari is our next topic. His Chinese name is 加塔利. Here's a photo of him.
Guattari liked to invent new words and to twist old words. So the dictionary will not help you to understand the special terms in his writing. What helps is to pay attention to the whole context and how he uses the term.
Here's an encyclopedia introduction to him and his thought: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Felix_Guattari
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ReplyDeleteI would to deliver my opinion about the way we look the animals in the zoo.
I think when we talk about “seeing”, the “ place” we are standing to see is also an important issue. Basically, zoos are created to be the place for people to see, that’s why most zoos are design in open-air style and quite similar to amphitheatres. To this topic, animals are not only be imprisoned in the cages to allow us to see, they are forced to be in the stage and perform an animal show. Otherwise, people pay for the show, so logically they have “right” to see what they wanna see, thus animals’ images are represented as tourists’ respect(tourist don’t need them to be presented as real or we can say natural, but goes as a happy, naïve, funny way). In short, seeing is a way how power operates, in this way, animals become objects. By the way, my point of view is inspired by the book“the tourists gaze”, its main discussion is about how the tourists gaze change the culture express itself, and i introduce its point to ponder our reading.
p.s. Guattari is super hard ><"
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ReplyDeleteInteresting comment about tourism: because it could be turned inside-out. That is, tourism treats the peoples we go to see as if they are in a human zoo and that we "logically" have the "right" to view them for our entertainment.
In fact the earliest zoos in Europe sometimes included human beings in their displays!! They were "savages" brought in from Africa to make the scene look "natural". This connects zoos to colonialism too....
Erick