Thursday, November 12, 2009

Some Thinking Based on Justice Miranda and Soft Wishing Y

From literacy to electracy, there seems to be a great step for the rhetors and rhetoricians to take.By inserting the story of the samba singer Carmen Miranda, Ulmer thinks it possible even desirable to try to translate samba into a concept(199).Actually, samba represents a voice which could be silenced in some cases.Ulmer believes that the purpose of the remake is to devise a replacement (202).He also believes that "Y"is a puncept- a category gathering and relating a semantic field based on similarity of signifier rather than of signified (230).He prefers to placing his soft wishing on the web.
When reading these two chapters, however, what I am thinking about is how to make a voice reachable to the public. The following is created by a Chinese oversea student who revealed his feelings after making some comparison on two different cultures.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cWaX-awEkI&feature=related
I do not want to talk about the comparison he made, however, I felt really funny since he smartly used rap and the images of Obama and Hillary in conveying a strong feeling: "Why do you come to the U.S.,giving up the beautiful life you own?"(Obama) and "Why do you come to the U.S., admiring our monotonous life?"(Hillary)
I can not say that "monotonous"is the most proper word to convey the meaning. For me, I would prefer to use the word "simple". I do not mean to offend but this does reflect different understanding on different situations and cultures.The success of this piece of movie is that the student skillfully use the specific images of celebrities to broadcast his own feeling in a humorous way, which made his voice more overwhelming.
Concerning my EM, I am thinking of building a website through Dw to harbor and extend the idea of warning the hazard or even destroying power of the nuclear power plants. Some funny or light-hearted elements will not be denied, albeit the serious and heavy theme. However, I'd rather not to confine it too much before it really comes out, for I believe more multi-model technique would contribute to a better and more balanced meaning expression and the establishment of MEmorial will for sure experience many changes in the process.

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