Here’s an extract from my dissertation which in turn references Dick Hebdige’s book Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things (Comedia)
In Ten 8 ‘priority and precedence are given to written and spoken language’ (Hebdige, 1988:158) which ‘encourage scrutiny and rational contemplation’ engaging ‘the subject in rational argumentation and logical debate.’ (Williams, 2003:127).In contrast Hebdige sees the Face as belonging to the ‘pagan postmodern world’ (Hebdige, 1988:156) where ‘there is no history, there is no contradiction – just random clashes and equally random conjunctions of semantic particles (images and words)’ (Hebdige, 1988:159). The Face lets images have the upper hand. Instead of trying to pin pictures down or solve them, it sets them loose from what Hebdige calls ‘the constraints imposed by the rationalist theology of representation.’
‘Truth-insofar as it exists at all – is first and foremost pictured: embodied in images which have their own power and effects. Looking takes precedence over seeing (“sensing” over “knowledge”). Words are pale (“speculative”) facsimiles of an original reality which is directly apprehensible through image.’ (Hebdige, 1988:159)
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Updated my business card. Added two new faces to this version. Obviously on the actual thing it has my details just choosing not to share them with everyone on-line.
