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Meaning of "subjectivity"

The following texts are from the book "Art and Politics" by Claudia Mesch. I think the word "subjectivity" in this book means "identity". Do you think I am right?

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Since he presents these elements as key components of his own knowledge system, in some sense his drawing/archives can be seen as extended selfportraits. The series maps his own relation to the images and people of the world. This relation also comprises his own subjectivity and worldview.


Export used street-theater tactics to criticize the cinema’s standardized codes for film’s objectification and rendering public of an eroticized female body, representing that body without any aspect of its own subjectivity or mind.In Touch Cinema (1968), which was performed by the artist and one of her female colleagues in a number of European cities including Cologne and Vienna, Export enclosed her bare-breasted torso in a “theater”-like box with a curtain opening at the front; a second performer would encourage passers-by, men or women, to touch her (concealed) body, thereby fondling her breasts.

The installation not only used psychoanalysis to understand her child’s process of socialization—into what Lacan termed the realm of the “symbolic,” that is, the realm of the “name of the father,” of law and language, a parallel in some ways to what Freud had termed the Oedipal stage—but also critically questioned how female subjectivity is formulated in this process of child-rearing.

Alternatively the terms “post-feminism” and “third-wave feminism” have been used by feminists of color to argue for the need for feminism also to account for female ethnic subjectivities.

During Mancoba and Sekoto’s exile the pursuit of independence gained momentum as a result of other intellectual developments relating to black African identity beyond colonialist strictures and specifically, from the developing philosophy of Negritude, an African humanism that rejected European philosophical and cultural models of the universality of the European subject, and of subjectivity itself.

As Chika Okeke has stated, the story of the emergence of the multiple modernisms of the African continent hinges upon the fact that “modern artistic subjectivity is limited to political independence.” Art by modern artists in each of these countries, both before and since independence, certainly has a complex relation to African social and political developments, but the agency that is necessary for African artists to take up and rework Western notions of modernism was only achieved with the rejection of the ideology of colonialism.

  

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red apple I think the word "subjectivity" in this book means "identity". Do you think I am right? No; it is the opposite of 'objectivity': Subjectivity (noun): judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions.

  • red apple I think the word "subjectivity" in this book means "identity".
  • Do you think I am right?
  • No; it is the opposite of 'objectivity': Subjectivity (noun): judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions.
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red apple I think the word "subjectivity" in this book means "identity". Do you think I am right?

No; it is the opposite of 'objectivity':

Subjectivity (noun): judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions.

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red appleI think the word "subjectivity" in this book means "identity". Do you think I am right?

No.

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