Consider the ways in which either Ways of Seeing (and accompanying images/videos), Culture as Weapon (and accompanying images/videos), Dutchman, The Slave or Persepolis demonstrates how culture is used to stir the passions on behalf of power.
3. In Culture as Weapon, Nato Thompson writes that the “artistic technique of stirring the passions and appealing to the intimate side in each of us has become inseparable from power,” and that he wants “to explain the ways in which those in power have to use culture to maintain and expand their influence, and the role that we all play in the process”
(viii). Consider the ways in which either Ways of Seeing (and accompanying images/videos), Culture as Weapon (and accompanying images/videos), Dutchman, The Slave or Persepolis demonstrates how culture is used to stir the passions on behalf of power. What is the nature of the “culture” represented in the work(s)? What passions or emotions does it try to provoke? What tools does it use to provoke those passions/emotions? Is it successful in provoking the passions/emotions it intends and where does it fail? What do these failures tell you about the possibility or impossibility of preventing the weaponization of culture? How are lines drawn between those who use culture and those who consume culture? What role do you as a consumer of culture play in the structure of power more broadly?
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