The thing that immediately comes to mind with "the frozen" is the frozen foods aisle at the grocery store. There seems to be an association with the modern and the mass-produced inherent in frozen goods--after all, it's a relatively recent innovation. You might want to think about the impact that freezing had on consumers.
Also, on a completely different note, I also thought of cryogenics as a kind of bizarre version of the frozen. the appeal of the frozen is the appeal of being able to perfectly preserve things.
The frozen seems deeply rooted in transportation of not only food but of genes. Frozen bull semen allows for a disembodied transportation of desirable genes for quality controlled meat production. hans
The frozen calls to mind ice hotels, where truly everything is frozen, including the beds, drinking glasses, and chandeliers; such an environment allows for an intersection of "adventure tourism" and art.
When I think of the frozen, I immediately associate the idea of preservation. Be it our food or our bodies, we tend to freeze things that we want to keep for an extended period of time. Maybe this stems from an innate desire to perpetuate stability or an incentive to preparedly propel into the future. Cryogenics is the practice of freezing the dead bodies of humans and animals in hopes of resuscitating them in the future if and when the necessary technology is available.
-Frozen assets seem to be a good place to explore the meaning of frozen in relation to money. What happens to frozen assets, is a presupposition of frozen assets the fact that they will become liquidated? -Frozen seems to relate to time in a way that could be explored. I can't help think of snow white and sleeping beauty as being fairy tales that display beauty frozen in time. Perfect, but inaccessible. -George
Commodities, fetishes, souvenirs, relics, rubbish. What theories help us think about things? In this course we will read Victorian travelers on West African "fetish," Michael Taussig on his imagined cocaine museum, Susan Stewart on longing and souvenirs, Freud on shiny noses, Marx on tables, Annette Weiner on the similarities between gift and commodity exchange, Mary Douglas on dirt, D.W. Winnicott on string, and Arjun Appadurai on the idea of the social lives of things. The singularization of things, the ways in which history and memory are stored in real and imagined objects, the commodification of the human body, the animation of the inanimate, utopian recycling, gleaning, found objects as art and craft: we will consider a broad range of theoretical issues in our readings and in projects that put them to quirky use.
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The thing that immediately comes to mind with "the frozen" is the frozen foods aisle at the grocery store. There seems to be an association with the modern and the mass-produced inherent in frozen goods--after all, it's a relatively recent innovation. You might want to think about the impact that freezing had on consumers.
Also, on a completely different note, I also thought of cryogenics as a kind of bizarre version of the frozen. the appeal of the frozen is the appeal of being able to perfectly preserve things.
The frozen seems deeply rooted in transportation of not only food but of genes. Frozen bull semen allows for a disembodied transportation of desirable genes for quality controlled meat production.
hans
The frozen calls to mind ice hotels, where truly everything is frozen, including the beds, drinking glasses, and chandeliers; such an environment allows for an intersection of "adventure tourism" and art.
--Nicole
When I think of the frozen, I immediately associate the idea of preservation. Be it our food or our bodies, we tend to freeze things that we want to keep for an extended period of time. Maybe this stems from an innate desire to perpetuate stability or an incentive to preparedly propel into the future. Cryogenics is the practice of freezing the dead bodies of humans and animals in hopes of resuscitating them in the future if and when the necessary technology is available.
~Jordan Carter~
-Frozen assets seem to be a good place to explore the meaning of frozen in relation to money. What happens to frozen assets, is a presupposition of frozen assets the fact that they will become liquidated?
-Frozen seems to relate to time in a way that could be explored. I can't help think of snow white and sleeping beauty as being fairy tales that display beauty frozen in time. Perfect, but inaccessible.
-George
Schwarzenegger in Batman:
ICE TO MEET YOU.
Also, the northwest passage maybe opening, and polar bears dying.
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