Assignment Due 12/6: Choose a passage from "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," write out the passage, explain what it means and why you chose it.
Language is the embodiment of experience and tradition; as long as the ability to think rests on language, neither ‘reason’ nor ‘philosophy’ can be pure of the empirical, of experience, and of the experience of the others to whom we relate. It itself is a ‘union of opposites,’ of the aesthetic and the logical, the bodily and the intellectual; it unites the division Kant’s Critique creates (Dickson ibid).
The meaning of this passage is that language is the rebirth of experience and the traditions that all humans being have. Also, is the ability to think on language. it is the experience that we make with others and we can connect it. If it the opposites then will be a division of individual.
I choose this passage because it is make me think that language is a source that make you who you are. It is a source of carrying your traditions and built relationships and exchanged experiences with others. Communication build good connections with others and make others to understand you better.
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Assignment Due 11/22: Choose a passage from Jünger, write it out, explain the meaning of it, and why you chose this passage.
Or that liberalism has produced material benefits on a scale not seen before in history. These are the tangible symbols of progress and they help create the impression that liberal values define the world:
The breadth of people partaking of goods and pleasures is a sign of prosperity. Perhaps most symbolic are the grand cafes, in the halls of which one is fond of replicating the styles of the Rococo, Empire, and Biedermeier. They can be called the true palaces of democracy. Here one senses the dream-like, painless, and oddly agitated ease that fills the air like a narcotic. On the streets it is striking how the masses are dressed in such undeniably poor taste, yet in a uniform and “respectable” fashion. Bare and blatant poverty is rarely seen. The individual is greeted by a wealth of conveniences, such as the path paved for education and a career choice of preference, the free market of labor, the contractual character of almost all social ties and the unrestricted freedom of movement. The potential for conflict is thereby greatly reduced (pp. 12-13).
Liberalism created material things to become very important and this is the first time is seen in history. This give the impression of the values in the world that this being created of the symbolic materials things and the way the world see it:
material things and pleasures bring prosperity. An significant symbols is the cafes in the halls which give an imitation of the styles of the Rococo, Empire, and Biedermeier. This being also recognized as the true palaces of democracy. We can see the senses of dreams painless. we can see, that on the street people dress ugly, but at the same things they dress respectful. poverty is not common to see. People are free to choose what they pleased and what they feel is conveniences. Such as the career that they desired and there is are free marker labor.
I chose this passage because it show the freedom and the things that people can do in liberalism. Where people are focus in material things and have a freedom to choose what the desired. This reflect that people have a very stable and economic country. Where everybody have the a job and a open choices to pick what they decide to do and what they decide to be. When a country is stable there is less poverty.
Choose a scene from either Triumph of the Will or Night and Fog. Explain the scene and why you chose it.
One scene I chose from either Triumph of the Will or Night and Fog is NIGHT AND FOG (NUIT ET BROUILLARD) (Docu Part 1/2)the one when the women, men and children are in the concentration camps with see that they divided family. Men were in different train than the women and children. The living condition were horrible. All the bed were closed by from each other. People were suffered form hunger. They were treat like animal. The people in the concentration camp were doing the hard worked.
The reason why I chose this scene is because when I see it made me an emotional impact. It is sad to see how horrible was dictatorship. The abuse of authority; by taking advantage from those innocent people. I saw the struggle that those people had to do in order to survived. The separation of the family and the selection of the people who were more healthy by taking out the clothes.
"The development of modern officialdom into a highly qualified, professional labor force, specialized in expertness through long years of preparatory training, stands opposed to all these arrangements. Modern bureaucracy in the interest of integrity has developed a high sense of status honor; without this sense the danger of an awful corruption and a vulgar Philistinism threatens fatally. And without such integrity, even the purely technical functions of the state apparatus would be endangered (p.88)."
The meaning of this passage is that in order to have a successful quality and professional of labor result, it have to go through a process of years. in order to have a positive result you have to prepare and be dedicate to show others ability to work. However, failing the ability to teach a good quality of labor, will be horrible and dangerous.
I chose this passage because is make me to remember that we always get what we created. One example, of this is when we plan a seed. In order for us to see positive result with have to create dedication and care. By saying dedication and care means that we have to put water and make sure to give that plan a little of sun shine. If we fail to do so, the result will be negative and not plant will be grow. This is why i believed in everything we do, we have to do it with love and dedication in order to success
Assignment (Due 11/1): Please choose TWO sections from the Weimar Constitution one from the first part on the structure of government, (Art. 1-108) and a second from the section on rights (Art 109-181). Please write out the passages, interpret the meaning of them, then explain why you chose these passages.
The first part on the structure of government i chose:
Article 48 of the constitution gives the president the power to suspend civil liberties in times of crisis. This was the legal pretext the Nazis used to turn Germany into a dictatorship, however it was originally invoked by the government before the Nazis took power, they simply continued the "state of emergency."
The meaning of this article is very significant because is stated in the article that the government suspend of the activities such as privacy. In which the government is the one who has absolute power and control everything. When dictatorship happen people don't have freedom of speak. It is the government who decide everything in how things should be do.
I chose this article because this passage gave me a meaning of a prison into liberty. This pretext control everything that people did and people didn't have a right to express themselves. It sad to know that you have a lack into your activities, and you were not able to do whatever you pleased.
The second part from the section of right i picked:
Article 113:
Reich communities speaking a foreign language may not be deprived by legislation of their national identity, especially in the use of their mother language in education, in local administration and jurisdiction.
The meaning of this article is that at first people were deprived to talk in they own languages. The language that they parents spoke. However, with this article said that people who borned with another language have the right to preserve it. The law will support those who had a national identity and respect the language that they acquired at home.
I chose this article because as a second language learner I know that deprived me from my own language will be horrible. I could understand those people who back on the day migrate to another countries. In that days they didn't allow them to use they language. At the result, some parents forget to teach they children they own language and nationality valued that are on every culture and most be respect. It is a right that every individual have to know where they come from etc. It is give you more valued to know about who you are, where are you come from and appreciate your culture where you or your parents come from.
Friday, October 17, 2014
Assignment: Due 10/18 Choose a scene from M and interpret the scene and explain the importance of the scene The scene i choose is M (Black Vampire). This scene is about a man who was a productor who asked Friz Lang to make a film. At first Friz Lang didn't want to do it. He was tired of doing film and the insistent of the man may him said yes under his condition.Friz Lang chose a child murder. He picked a young men who looked like a regular man to explain that someone who may look innocent can be a criminal. was killing children. In the scene mother cried, said and complaint that punished the criminal didn't bring the children into life and that they had to take care them children. The author used shadow to create imagination on the crime that the man committed to the little girls. Friz Lang said that most of the criminal don't commit crimes on purpose. The ironic part is the used of real criminal on the film and covered by Friz Lang when the police were looking for them. The importance of the scene is that it was the first film that being created. Also, is based on a real life. Friz Lang used real criminals on his film. I believe the purpose of use real criminal is to know how they felt when committed crime.
Saturday, October 11, 2014
"The Lavender Song" (Das Lila Lied), music by Mischa Spoliansky, lyrics by Kurt Schwabach (1920) (Culture - Cabaret Song) (Society - Homophobia)
The part of the song i chose is this one. We can see it in English and German translations
CHORUS:
We're not afraid to be queer and different if that means hell -- well, hell we'll take the chance they're all so straight, uptight, upright and rigid they march in locksep we prefer to dance We see a world of romance and of pleasure All they can see is sheer banality Lavender nights are our greatest treasure where we can be just who we want to be
Lyrics: Was will man nur? Ist das Kultur, da jeder Mensch verpönt ist, der klug und gut, jedoch mit Blut von eigner Art durchströmt ist, da grade die Kategorie vor dem Gesetz verbannt ist, die im Gefühl bei Lust und Spiel und in der Art verwandt ist? Und dennoch sind die meisten stolz, da sie von anderm Holz! Wir sind nun einmal anders, als die andern, die nur im Gleichschritt der Moral geliebt, neugerig erst durch tausend Wunder wandern, und für die ’s doch nur das Banale gibt. Wir aber wissen nicht, wie das Gefühl ist, denn wir sind alle andrer Welten Kind; wir lieben nur die lila Nacht, die schwül ist, weil wir ja anders als die andern sind.
The interpretation of these lyrics means that the women who were working in the cabaret didn't care what others thought about themselves. We can see this when they said; "We're not afraid to be queer and different." They didn't care to be called stranged and different in a society that people pretended to have a honored life. The women felt pleasure and comfortable with that they do in the cabaret all night. A place where they want to be and be themselves.
I choose this lyrics because it shows that those women who were working in a cabaret enjoy to be who they were. Also, people always will be there to judge you what we do.Our life continues, we got it keep up your own life. Society is going to talk to you to do and follow always a format and this show that we have to be ourselves all the times don't matter others opinions.
The other song i choose is "Night Ghost" (Nachtgespenst), music by Rudolf Nelson, lyrics by Friedrich Hollaender (1930) (Culture - Cabaret Song)
"Night Ghost" (Nachtgespenst), music by Rudolf Nelson, lyrics by Friedrich Hollaender (1930)
English Translation by Inge Spiegel (see original German text, below):
Night Ghost (Nachtgespenst)
When the housewife chains the hallway door at night, I’m standing right outside. Without hurry, I file the chain away, and there I am. As the daughter is putting on her nightgown, I enter her room. I feel sorry for her. I’m the night ghost, your sweet night ghost, I wake you up each time you call me your darling. Don’t be so scared, It's only me waking you. And after you have been uncovered, you will get tucked in again. When I climb through the window, I have no interest in taking your jewels, Only your ivory skin appeals to me. As a night ghost I don’t take any shiny jewels; only enough for the return fare.
Nachtgespenst
Legt die Hausfrau nachts die Kette hoch, im Korridor, steh ich davor. Mit der Feile ohne Eile, keck, feil ich se weg. Da liegt der Dreck. Waehrend sich die Tochter gerade kleid, tret ich bei ihr ein, sie tut mir leid. Ich bin das Nachtgespenst, dein suesses Nachtgespenst. Ich weck dich, wenn du pennst, sooft wie’s du mich Liebling nennst. Sei bloss nicht so erschreckt, du wirst nur aufgeweckt. Und wenn du aufgedeckt, dann wirst du wieder zugedeckt. Steig ich durchs Fenster ein, reizt micht kein Edelstein. Nein, nur dein Elfenbein reizt mich allein. Ich nehm als Nachtgespenst kein Steuckchen mit, was glaenzt. Ich brauch wirklich nur das Fahrtgeld retour.
The interpretation to these lyrics is about a man who at first refuse to be with the women from the cabaret. He expressed the sadness that he felt from those women who lived the happy life every night. A man who refused to be in a cabaret . A man who tried a prohibit fruit and then wanted to keep trying to eat it without the society knew it. One the men be discovered he lived and enjoy it the pleasure life.
i choose these lyrics because it similar to the movie The Blue Angel. A respectful professor who was looking for his students in the cabaret. This professor got an attraction to Lola and he refused it to be with her at first. After a couple visit he went to bed with Lola. Then he was discovered and got fired from his job. At the result he continue with Lola and got married and the life of pleasure what a hell. He got depressed until he died. This shows to never judge anything because we can say i don't eat this food and who knows if you have to eat it. People make mistakes, no one is perfect .
Paragraph 175 (Society - Homophobia)
A national prohibition, Paragraph 175, was added to the Reich Penal Code in 1871. It read:1
"An unnatural sex act committed between persons of male sex or by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights might also be imposed."
When the Nazi's came to power in 1933, they put a halt to efforts seeking reform of this law. In 1935, after the murder of Ernst Roem, the NSDAP amended the Paragraph 175 to close what were seen as loopholes in the current law.
The new law had three parts:
Paragraph 175:
"A male who commits a sex offense with another male or allows himself to be used by another male for a sex offense shall be punished with imprisonment. Where a party was not yet twenty-one years of age at the time of the act, the court may in especially minor cases refrain from punishment."
Paragraph 175a:
"Penal servitude up to 10 years or, where there are mitigating circumstances, imprisonment of not less than three months shall apply to: (1) a male who, with violence or the threat of violence to body and soul or life, compels another male to commit a sex offense with him or to allow himself to be abused for a sex offense; (2) a male who, by abusing a relationship of dependence based upon service, employment or subordination, induces another male to commit a sex offense with him or to allow himself to be abused for a sex offense; (3) a male over 21 years of age who seduces a male person under twenty-one years to commit a sex offense with him or to allow himself to be abused for a sex offense; (4) a male who publicly commits a sex offense with males or allows himself to be abused by males for a sex offense or offers himself for the same."
Paragraph 175b:
"An unnatural sex act committed by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights might also be imposed.
This relate with the lecture because there is prohibition in both. During the Blue Night man got punish for being in a cabaret such as loosing their jobs. The men who went to a cabaret society put themselves marginal. A respectful men were unable to have sex with women who were prostitute.In this paragraph is punishment men being with another men. Both were big controversies because both mention what society don't allow others to do.
