From the class discussion, the issues were private property VS. personal property, and how people show ownership. Such as using "My" and "I need" Difference between private and personal property is that there is intimacy issue to it. Miller stated that ," personal property, which assumes a genuinely self-productive relationship between persons and objects'private property would than become not home ownership but the ownership of somebody else's home.".
As an example of artifact which shows both private and personal property would be an iPod. It isn't a necessity to living, yet many people get it. We live in a high tech society; people are influenced easily by surroundings. And that one believes it is comfortable, high maintenance and has a desire to buy the iPod. iPod can be just personal property in a way how Miller's quote says self-productive relationship between person and objects. However, one who has self-productive relationship with an object can have an attachment to an object. .
The product iPod is mass produced, and manufactured in a same way as the other iPods. But the moment someone programs, and stores the songs in iPod, it becomes personal property, and as the user is influenced by the surrounding, and the moment that user customizes the iPod it becomes private property. .
To simplify the topic of artifacts, self, and society can begin from anything. Why does person wear certain things? Why did the designer design this? I think the influences of the society controls the self relationship with objects, and Miller's idea of private, personal property is the representation of one self integrating with larger social group, and I think every topic from the Miller's text ties in together one way or another. .
1. Introduction The ancient world provides us with the unique possibility of uncovering and understanding how life, in all its facets, was like for ancient man. We can glimpse back in the past at man's more primitive morals, beliefs, politics, entertainment and everyday life and compare it to our ow...
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However, even this bow, which is a divine artefact, given by Apollo to Hercules and from him to Philoctetes is also portrayed in an uncivilised way as the word which Sophocles uses for the hunted meat in the original play is "fodder4", a word used to describe food for beast. ... He has been cast out of society because of his oozing foot. ...
They have been marginalized and dehumanized by men in the society. Women had to fights for their rights such as voting, education, property, humanity and for a status in the human society. ... Its true that things have changed for women and we have occupied a status in the society but we are still not equal to men. ... Due to this many pregnant women develop a sense of personal responsability and self blame (Ten teachers, page 155). ... Because women is bearing the child, she does go through many physical changes in her body but there is no need for her to go through the emotional and mental s...
Regardless of most tests having been devised so as not to indicate sex differences, studies on lay self-perceptions of Intelligence Quotient (IQ) show consistent sex differences (ibid.). ... Current studies on self-estimates of intelligence done over the decade 1990-2000 give an interesting and important insight into lay theories of intelligence, mainly those that examine multiple theories of intelligence (ibid.). ... We used Gardner's theory because its multifaceted classification of intelligence allows for a greater detailed analysis of where differences in lay people self-estimations...
Regardless of most tests having been devised so as not to indicate sex differences, studies on lay self-perceptions of Intelligence Quotient (IQ) show consistent sex differences (ibid.). ... Current studies on self-estimates of intelligence done over the decade 1990-2000 give an interesting and important insight into lay theories of intelligence, mainly those that examine multiple theories of intelligence (ibid.). ... We used Gardner's theory because its multifaceted classification of intelligence allows for a greater detailed analysis of where differences in lay people self-estimations...
Mediation is also an important aspect of identity formation as reflexive social entities, such as selves, societies, and cultures, are fundamentally constituted through the process of mediation while this same process produces a fiction of pre-mediated existence. The fact that the self is not only reconstituted but is actually produced by the mediation of images is contested by the idea that there is a reality independent of the image. ...
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