dithology:

choosechoice:

Dove hired a forensic artist to draw how women see themselves versus how others see them - the results are moving.

I really, really like this commercial. The pacing and lighting are lovely while the message really hits home. Way to go Dove, marketing that works for me and makes me want to purchase your products!

And then the problems surface! I love when my immediate reactions to things are challenged and my eyes open to other, critical interpretations. Honestly, I love it! It feeeeeeeeels like learning.

“Then there is the issue of hypocrisy. Dove is owned by Unilever, which promotes skin-lightening creams in countries such as India. Unilever also owns Axe, a brand notorious for ads that portray women as squealing fembots subservient to Axe deodorant-wearing men. Can a company whose job is to sell personal care products truly be a role model for women’s self-acceptance?” (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/dove-has-it-wrong-its-probably-better-not-to-think-about-your-looks/article11287224/)

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jenniferanne: Taussig discusses the “phantom” of notetaking—that which arises when we reread the banal scribbles of our field notes or other forms of notetaking. The “phantom” is constituted by the traces of experience, those “interstices of notation” that cannot be jotted down, but which remain in the pages of the notebook nonetheless by their very absence. Taussig also discusses how notebooks become fetishized, citing biographical accounts of great thinkers that lovingly detail quality of paper, type of ink and so on. The notebook as an object is imbued with a mystical quality that enables the artist, writer, creator to execute his or her work with confidence and to encourage others to acquiesce to its authority. (via Documenta Notebooks: Michael Taussig, Fieldwork Notebooks)

jenniferanne:

Taussig discusses the “phantom” of notetaking—that which arises when we reread the banal scribbles of our field notes or other forms of notetaking. The “phantom” is constituted by the traces of experience, those “interstices of notation” that cannot be jotted down, but which remain in the pages of the notebook nonetheless by their very absence. Taussig also discusses how notebooks become fetishized, citing biographical accounts of great thinkers that lovingly detail quality of paper, type of ink and so on. The notebook as an object is imbued with a mystical quality that enables the artist, writer, creator to execute his or her work with confidence and to encourage others to acquiesce to its authority. (via Documenta Notebooks: Michael Taussig, Fieldwork Notebooks)

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Not an ethnography, but what a badass cover! 

Not an ethnography, but what a badass cover! 

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What the cockfight says it says in a vocabulary of sentiment - the thrill of risk, the despair of loss, the pleasure of triumph. Yet what it says is not merely that risk is exciting, loss depressing, or triumph gratifying, banal tautologies of affect, but that it is of these emotions, thus exampled, that society is built and individuals put together.
Clifford Geertz - “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” in The Interpretation of Cultures (via glovedup)
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CLIFFORD GEERTZ’S FIRST ETHNOGRAPHY. HAS ANYONE ACTUALLY READ THIS THING???

CLIFFORD GEERTZ’S FIRST ETHNOGRAPHY. HAS ANYONE ACTUALLY READ THIS THING???

THIS WAS THE FIRST ETHNOGRAPHY I EVER READ. I FUCKING HATED IT (AND THE PROF WHO ASSIGNED IT) AT THE TIME. MOSTLY BECAUSE WE WERE GIVEN A COUPLE DAYS TO READ THE WHOLE THING. I ENDED UP REALLY LIKING THE PROF OF THAT CLASS THOUGH (AND THIS BOOK). I DIDN’T HEAR ABOUT HER FOR A WHILE AND ASSUMED SHE GOT FIRED BUT A FEW YEARS AGO THIS GIRL THAT I USED TO GO TO SCHOOL WITH WAS IN TOWN FOR A CONFERENCE AND I MADE SOME COMMENT ABOUT HOW THAT PROF WAS A TURD (OR AT LEAST I USED TO THINK SO) AND HOW I WASN’T ALL THAT SURPRISED SHE GOT FIRED AND THE GIRL WAS LIKE “SHE’S FUCKING DEAD YOU KNOW AND I LOVED HER!!!!” EEK, MY BAD.  

THIS WAS THE FIRST ETHNOGRAPHY I EVER READ. I FUCKING HATED IT (AND THE PROF WHO ASSIGNED IT) AT THE TIME. MOSTLY BECAUSE WE WERE GIVEN A COUPLE DAYS TO READ THE WHOLE THING. I ENDED UP REALLY LIKING THE PROF OF THAT CLASS THOUGH (AND THIS BOOK). I DIDN’T HEAR ABOUT HER FOR A WHILE AND ASSUMED SHE GOT FIRED BUT A FEW YEARS AGO THIS GIRL THAT I USED TO GO TO SCHOOL WITH WAS IN TOWN FOR A CONFERENCE AND I MADE SOME COMMENT ABOUT HOW THAT PROF WAS A TURD (OR AT LEAST I USED TO THINK SO) AND HOW I WASN’T ALL THAT SURPRISED SHE GOT FIRED AND THE GIRL WAS LIKE “SHE’S FUCKING DEAD YOU KNOW AND I LOVED HER!!!!” EEK, MY BAD.  

Adding a little Latin America to this shit!

Adding a little Latin America to this shit!