Making Cultures

Making Cultures

‘Culture’ is a term which is used a lot:

—>high culture,

—>low culture/pop culture,

—>fan cultures,

—>consumer culture,

—>subculture,

—>celebrity culture,

—>digital cultures,

—> high culture:  See the photos bellow. There are in mounted in high culture. The skull is full of swarovski/diamonds. The Andreas Gursky photo is $4.3 million that year if it was on sale in our century it would’t be sold that much, because now we have the technology photoshop e.t.c and we can change the hole photo and ,make it how we want it to be, but in 1999 there wasn’t that much technology to do chance the photo e.t.c

—>low culture/pop culture,

—>fan cultures,

—>consumer culture,

—>subculture,

—>celebrity culture,

—>digital cultures,

A society can exist without a culture (e.g. insect or primate

societies), but culture cannot exist without a society

Culture is symbolic.

A symbol is something that stands for something else( language is symbolic )

A sign means what it does because of its relationship to other

signs within a system, not because of any essential property that

it embodies

When we are raised in a culture, we become fluent in a range of

languages (visual and spoken) without realising it. Look at the signs bellow, there are symbols  symbols, “text” —> Everything is a ‘text’ that we ‘read’