*** Image 1 Source: Iris Huang, @irisspace Image 2 Source: Iris Huang, @irisspace Image 3 Source: Carol Lan, @carolbluelan For more on: visual rhetoric Hariman, Robert, and John Louis Lucaites. No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Chicago, Ill.: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011. Lee, Eunji, Jung-Ah Lee, Jang Ho Moon, … [Read more...]
Plastic Surgery in South Korea
I made a short timeline with some of the key historical events that have shaped South Korean's modern attitude toward plastic surgery. The timeline is easier to view when displayed in full width. You can see the full width version and the rest of my project on its subdomain: plastic.violetdegnan.com The project has two main components: an art project, titled "GIRL … [Read more...]
Food and Stuff
The slow food movement is an interesting one, for a lack of better words. I understand the movement as a resistance to the neo-liberal, consumerist McDonalds [plural] of the world, but, in the US, it definitely had a suburban/quinoa-and-avocados feel to it - “convivia and heritage pork!” Especially the Leitch article, the movement reminded me of a previous discussion on how the … [Read more...]
What Would Petrini Say to “Farm to Robot to Table?”
Farm to Robot to Table Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food Movement, first opposed McDonald’s opening in Italy by handing out plates of penne pasta to protesters. According to Alison Leitch, the Slow Food Movement is “an international consumer movement dedicated to the protection of ‘endangered foods'” (437). Not only does the Slow Food Movement seek … [Read more...]
The Influence of Spongebob Squarepants
As a child, I always loved Spongebob. To this day, I still do. One memory that stands out the most, however, was going to the Dominican Republic and being able to watch Spongebob in Spanish. In Moran and Chung's article "Global or Local Identity? A theoretical analysis of the role of Viacom on identity formation among children in an international context," Moran and Chung … [Read more...]