Visibilidade

9 Outubro 2020, 17:00 • Joana Matos Frias

Comentário detalhado do Capítulo «Visibilidade», de Italo Calvino, incluído em Seis Propostas para o Próximo Milénio:

Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles Sanders Peirce and Roland Barthes's models of visual analysis

9 Outubro 2020, 14:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

1.     Presentation of key theories and concepts to image analysis: connotation, denotation, myth, semiotics, structuralism, sign.

2.     Analysis of the different layers of meaning in images.

3.     Application of Roland Barthes’s model of semiotics to the analysis of images.

4.     Discussion of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirce’s semiotic theories.

5.     Discussion of the interrelationship of image and text.

For next class:

1.     Read “Rhetoric of the Image” by Roland Barthes.

2.     Bring one or more images to class, whose meaning changes depending on the historical and/or social context in which it is shown and viewed OR whose meaning changes if it is taken out of context or is miscaptioned.

3.     Consider the interrelationship of image and text.

Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles Sanders Peirce and Roland Barthes's models of visual analysis

9 Outubro 2020, 12:30 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

1.     Presentation of key theories and concepts to image analysis: connotation, denotation, myth, semiotics, structuralism, sign.

2.     Analysis of the different layers of meaning in images.

3.     Application of Roland Barthes’s model of semiotics to the analysis of images.

4.     Discussion of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirce’s semiotic theories.

5.     Discussion of the interrelationship of image and text.

For next class:

1.     Read “Rhetoric of the Image” by Roland Barthes.

2.     Bring one or more images to class, whose meaning changes depending on the historical and/or social context in which it is shown and viewed OR whose meaning changes if it is taken out of context or is miscaptioned.

3.     Consider the interrelationship of image and text.

"Images, Power and Politics"

8 Outubro 2020, 14:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

1.     Discussion of central aspects in the chapter “Images, Power and Politics”: relationships of power and (un)ethical photographic practice, representation, visuality and countervisuality, the myth of photographic truth.

1.     Analysis of images that illustrate the theories presented in the chapter.

For next class: 

1.     Read the chapter “Images, Power and Politics”, pp. 29-37(from “Myth, Connotation and the Meaning of Images” to “Images and Ideology”), and identify key theories and concepts: connotation, denotation, myth, semiotics, structuralism, sign.

2.     Bring an image to class through which to illustrate the use of semiotic analysis.

Discussão do texto de John McDowell: Perception as a Capacity for Knowledge.

8 Outubro 2020, 11:00 • Alberto Miguel Antunes Arruda

Discussão do texto de John McDowell: Perception as a Capacity for Knowledge.