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Discourse Analysis,
Michel Foucault
•Looking not at just one image or text but a whole social, political, economic, emotional, etc. context in which the image (or other material) is produced and understood.
•Examples: Looking at x-rays in terms of the medical discourse (doctors, nurses, managed care, hospitals, whole language of anatomy and other medical concepts and terms), or a Rembrandt in terms of art discourse (museums, galleries, publications, auction houses, etc.)
•All the elements of a discourse relate to each other (intertextuality)
•Foucault: Our sense of self made through the operations of discourse.
•Determines what types of actions feel possible to both those with and without with power. In constant flux…
Barbara Kruger's Untitled (University of Southern Florida)
Barbara Kruger
The terms come from Michel Foucault, or heavily influenced this approach.

He also wrote yuon prisons, mental hospitals, science—wanted to understand what makes us human-or classified as sub-human.

So touches on philosophy, human nature.