WK11-DQ

1. How can we consider the function of the author in critical discourse and in the larger formation of the subject and the discourses of subjectivity within the modern and postmodern worlds?
 * Discourse**:

2. How does power operate in discourse in relation to the state and its largest institutions and how does discourse discipline a population?

3. Bove connects "discourse" with poststructuralism in explaining the idea that truths are relative to their frames of reference/discourses, and that, in fact, those discourses help to constitute the truths (56). What does this mean and can we think of examples? 3.b. Does contemporary American political discourse about "illegal immigrants" provide an example? See Huffington Post article

1. Do you agree that high art is commodified by capitalism which is using cheap production of paintings in advertisement and turning the products of human greatness into plastic souvenirs, playing classical music in elevators and packing it for mass consumption? Should high art be special to a certain place and people?
 * Popular Culture:**

2. Where do you stand on the idea that the distinctions between high, mass and popular culture are blending or disappearing? (Page 331)

3. Do you agree or disagree that 'popular texts cannot be transcendent' (334)? Are there any examples of texts being at one time merely popular culture but now a part of canonical works?

4. What are your thoughts on the different approaches of reading/studying popular or high culture; speculative, formalist, textual, and distance reading? Should I keep in mind any kind of analysis when I am reading a high culture text for example?