My name is Javier Morales, I'm 20 years old, I was born here but I lived in Ecuador my whole life with my family, after I finished High school I decided to move her in Jersey City and study Graphic Design and try to work with my artistic side adn share my creativity with others. I've been living here 2 years now and during that period of time I've been getting a lot of experiences in the world of the art and I really like it. One of my favourite hobbies are drawing and listening to music, I love to colect vinyl recods and try to discober more different types of music genders. Another thing that I would like to add is that I love horror movies and evrything about horror although sometimes I get scared easily. Even though I'm a shy person, I like meeting new people and make new friends and try to get a great experience during college.
1- Understanding Patriarchy by bell hooks:
"Patriarchy is a political-social system that
insists that males are inherently dominating,
superior to everything and everyone deemed
weak, especially females, and endowed with the
right to dominate and rule over the weak and to
maintain that dominance through various forms
of psychological terrorism and violence".
In this part of the text she shows how Patriarchy affects to not only for women even on men too making them believe that they are the ones in charge because they are bigger and stronger and think that they are the ones who dominate above all, using physical and mental violence trying to make women look irrelevant and with few capabilities.
"At church they had learned that God created
man to rule the world and everything in it and
that it was the work of women to help men
perform these tasks, to obey, and to always
assume a subordinate role in relation to a
powerful man".
This part caught my attention and shows how for a long time throughout the church it has been said how women are not capable of doing hard work since that is only a task for men and the duty of women would be to take care of men, demonstrating how they look down on women and teach others what is supposed to be correct.
2- What Memes Owe to Art History
"Similarly, memes offer a highly accessible and interactive platform of production that is ripe for challenge and dissent, with disagreements and controversy only fueling the fire of a successful meme truly going viral".
I liked this part because it's true, memes where created to share a message in a funny and mocking way and using the controversy as an ally, causing it to be shared more and more with the public, whether in a good or bad way depending on how people take it, since in the end it becomes humorous but also sharing a message.
"Through humor, memes incite a collective reaction to everyday life as well as reveling in it, in a format no less playful than it is political, decoding the murky structural screw-ups, paradoxes, and hypocrisies of our current political climate".
Memes are easily shared and appear everywhere using humor and using it as a tool to talk about different topics, whether political or cultural. If memes are used in a good way, the message can reach everyone.
3- Memes Are Our Generation's Protest Art
"Think of “protest art” and you likely imagine certain cliches from a previous era: Hippies gathered around an acoustic guitar, John Lennon and Yoko Ono camping out in their bedroom for weeks".
I picked this one because in every era people share a message/opinion in different ways, as it says here through music, and it became a criticized method, which the same thing happened with memes. It could be a "vulgar" or mocking way of sharing a message, but in the end it is effective.
“Memes help to articulate specific points, amplify ideas, and intensify emotions.”
I agree with this because once it goes viral, all the people will find out about the situation that the meme is making fun of and people will like the context about it and will become informed about the situations that the meme is talking about.
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