Appropriation: Taking something for oneself without consent.
If this is so then is it possible to always know when something is being appropriated? What defines consent? If I reblog a photo of someone with their name thus giving them credit does that mean it was a consented reblog?
Cultural Appropriation: The process of “borrowing” and changing the meaning of cultural products, slogans, images, or elements of fashion.
“The marketing of the qualities of hipness and cool points to how the class-based categories of high and low culture have been rendered meaningless” (87). In many ways, I feel like a point of visual culture is to show that there isn’t high or low culture at all.
“We call this context in which looking practices are engaged the field of the gaze” (94).
“The gaze, whether institutional or individual, thus helps to establish relationships of power. The act of looking is commonly regarded as awarding more power to the person who is looking than to the person who is the object of the look ” (111). Great to know.
On pages 114-115 the influence from Ways of Seeing is clear. It is discussed how one woman look available because she is in “full display to the viewer” and how the other is unavailable.
*So Practices of Looking is referencing Thelma & Louise…I am sensing a bit of interconnectedness here.
