The Summer of Our Discontent
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| When | Why |
|---|---|
| Aug-13-16 | Cartoonist Jack Ohman |
| Aug-13-16 | Snopes Fact Checks Purple Heart Story |
| Aug-13-16 | Context for Giuliani's Wild Hands |
| Aug-13-16 | Context for George Washington Bridge Scandal |
Added August 13, 2016 at 5:53am
by Terry Elliott
Title: Cartoonist Jack Ohman
Added August 13, 2016 at 6:33am
by Terry Elliott
Title: Snopes Fact Checks Purple Heart Story
Snopes.com provides some context for purple heart image in cartoon.
Added August 13, 2016 at 6:37am
by Terry Elliott
Title: Context for Giuliani's Wild Hands
Matt Taibbi give some hilarious context for Giuliani and the RNC.
Added August 13, 2016 at 6:42am
by Terry Elliott
Title: Context for George Washington Bridge Scandal
This is the most current information from the NYTimes on Governor Christie's connections to the lane closing fiasco that killed his chances for becoming president. Included is some background context if you are not up on the whole story.
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Eternity is in love with the creations of time.
Eternity is in love with the creations of time.
Such a ‘busy’ cartoonist for one panel.
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Cartoonist is trying very hard to create an illusion of depth. Note the lamps, the hatching and cross-hatching, and the vanishing point. I think the whole purpose of that is to make sure that the painting on the wall is believable in a spatial sense. Because…well, the painting is damned funny and full of subtext about very famous disasters in history.
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Eternity is in love with the creations of time.
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Can you identify all the disasters? And what is the subtext? The positioning of the painting is significant, too. I think the cartoonist is making a physical metaphor: what is ‘behind’ the nonsense that is happening in the foreground.
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I see the Titanic, the Hindenberg, a shark attack. What do the “D.S.M-V” letters stand for?
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Eternity is in love with the creations of time.
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I guess he is suggesting that an even laerger disaster is looming—the possible presidency of narcissistic whack job.
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There are levels of context here, some current and some very deep. The deep stuff is probably what I call subtext, cultural and history pretext to the cartoon that lends its own kind of depth just as much as perspective and vanishing point do.
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Cheap shot? Yeah, gotta get in a little fat shaming here. I have always said Christie never had a real shot at being prez because he was too fat. We haven’t had a fat president since Taft.
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Note all the whitespace around quote. Why? I think it ties the quote to the white t-shirts
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Note the artist’s use of pink blushes. They are all blushing. Why?
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Eternity is in love with the creations of time.
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Here is my analytic framework. It is just a way in and by no means the only one.
Of course, I “read” the whole gestalt quickly. There will usually be a click of acknowledgement or not. If I have been following the news carefully I get the click.
Either way the next task is to dive into the text, the context, and the subtext.
The text is what is literally on the page. I will put comment boxes around all of the items I want to discuss with you. If I don’t box something you want to talk about, well sign up for NowComment and add it yourself. This is a public document.
The context is the news and history that the cartoon ‘swims’ in. Some of this will be contemporaneous and current, but others bits of it will be cultural and historical.
The subtext usually arises from the context and text. Here we are trying to understand the cartoonist’s purpose and point of view. Why did he create the cartoon and what does it reflect about how he or she views the world.
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Eternity is in love with the creations of time.
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Now that you have had a few chances to put your two cents in and put together the text, context, and subtext; what is cartoonist’s message and purpose. Do you think he succeeds/fails/both? Other comments about wider philosophical/ethical significance of the cartoon?
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