Thanks for watching all! A slightly tough topic this week but an important part of literary and cultural theory. As always, if you like my stuff, I’d super appreciate you checking out my Patreon at patreon.com/tomnicholas

@irenesartika8222

4 жыл бұрын

Is there a video you make about CDA?

@OjoRojo40

4 жыл бұрын

Great video as usual, but I'm hear to be the pedantic asshole correcting french pronunciation. "Langue" is pronounced as in "Long".

@mE-zx7pt

3 жыл бұрын

Have you read Camille Pagia's writings? What are your thoughts on her attitude towards Foucault, Lacan & post-structuralism, etc.? Thank you for your videos!

@firstlast-cs6eg

3 жыл бұрын

12:58 I would expect a cat to hiss at a vacuum cleaner. Cat's aren't fond of loud noises and vacuums are usually pretty loud. They usually just flee them, but it would make sense for a cat to hiss at one too. Comparatively it would be strange for a cat to hiss at a mouse. Cats hiss as a threat, meaning they find what they hiss at, a threat. Mice aren't usually considered threats by cats. Lion would likely be considered a threat and be hissed at. Overall I don't see any bases for this argument of how we read words. We consider the whole meaning of the sentence. For example "He chopped up some bark" One would not expect someone to be chopping bark, but it's still a innocuous statement. "He chopped up some orphans" Similar lack of expectation for this to be the ending, but obviously has a more sinister implication. If with wider context the "orphans" were chickens who's parents are dead (thus orphans) the meaning changes again.

@OjoRojo40

3 жыл бұрын

@Carlos B I have no idea why did I post that message (now that I read it again). I must have been bored to dead, because indeed it sounds pedantic and stupid. Cheers mate, take care!

As one of my professors once said, the whole structuralist approach could be summarised in one postulate: "the complexity of reality is based upon simple structures"

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

That’s an awesome way to phrase it, I wish I had the evolution to come up with turns of phrase like that!

@butterflymoon6368

Жыл бұрын

and what did they say about poststructuralism?

@guteksan

Жыл бұрын

@@butterflymoon6368 Simple: "The complexity of reality is based upon simple poststructures" ;)

Your channel has such a great quality! You have a proffessoral vocation, your explanations are clear, concise and dynamic. The videos are very well edited. Thank you!

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for saying so, that means a lot!

@drapala97

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@DonnaSnyder

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@bazingacurta2567

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I like this guy a lot.

At one point in this video I got shivers, when it finally fell into place for me how Noam Chomsky’s work as a linguist connects to broader political analysis and activism. Thank you!

@JohnMoseley

3 жыл бұрын

That's a KZread video in itself waiting to be made, maybe an essay or a book. I've never seen anyone really try to explain or explore the connection between these two strands of Chomsky's work.

@MoveOnUpMusicEvan

3 жыл бұрын

Why am I getting major deja vu from this comment lol

@user-tp7wi4lt2b

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnMoseley I'm sure there's plenty of work on this subject already, you just have to research a bit

@JohnMoseley

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-tp7wi4lt2b Maybe, yeah.

@SquareyCircley

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnMoseley don't agree with all of it but Chris Knight's "Decoding Chomsky" is interesting

I'm doing my MA in Sociology right now and my lecturer isn't the best at explaining theories so these are VERY helpful. Thank you so much for this!

@TheOaktownBlogger

2 жыл бұрын

Hope your lecturer doesnt see this...

@cheikhhamel3782

2 жыл бұрын

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Hi Tom, I feel the need to point out, whenever you use the word "infer," it seems that you mean "imply." Simply put, the text doesn't "infer" anything--we do that. The text only "implies." Same with people. The speaker, producer (or writer of the text) implies, while the listener, recipient, etc., infers. It's a very common error, but fyi.

Will be eagerly waiting for you're video on post structuralism

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

It’s in the works, don’t worry! Likely to add a third code to my Society of the Spectacle mini-series first but poststructuralism will be up next!

Hey Tom, would you ever be interested in doing an introduction to Deleuze and Guattari?

Just wanted to say how useful this was - really appreciate the effort you've put in!

Please, continue making these videos. Not only are they extremely useful for my studies, but also you explain things very well and make the topic even more interesting!

The energy here is unmatched and my oh my! one of the best explanations out there. Students survive and thrive at times too because such amazing lectures exist.

Hey Tom, thanks so much for this resource! Wanted to let you know that our high school literature teacher assigned this to us to watch when talking about literary theories! I was really surprised but I’m glad that your channel is reaching so many people :)

I’m thrilled to have discovered your channel, Tom. Keep up the stellar work! Jmx

Bless you for doing this. I have an exam tomorrow and I've just discovered your videos. You describe all of this better than my assigned literature in my native language. Thank you for giving me a chance to pass this class.

@Tomsdrawings

3 жыл бұрын

Did you pass buddy?

I wish we had you as our college professor. You're really good at explaining complicated concepts effectively. Thank you.

Excellent summary. I learned these things prior to the internet's popularity and its numerous resources. That is, I read the original texts you cited, and it was hardgoing, because all of this was/is outside my field of study. I appreciate how you summed up everthing in an easily-understood and engaging way.

This video was EXTREMELY helpful for me to understand and make a presentation about the topic. Thank you so much, I really appreciate the effort you put in.

Thank you so much for your lucid and thorough presentations. They really help me in my work. Keep going!

Just stumbled upon this video while working on my final. I think that this is easily one of the best informative/teaching type videos ive ever seen. Just as the top comment says, this is a great video. You make great connections which are concise and applicable and this really helped me make some big connections. :) thank you

Thank you! Im a semiotics and culture theory student from Estonia and this helped me a lot when i started :)

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Really glad to hear it was helpful!

Fascinating! These are theories I'll have to delve deeper into. Thank you for the introduction.

19:10 and this is a very important concept of Manufacturing Consent :)

Tom, this is so easy to digest. Thank you. My textbook on lit theory and my lecturer went on too many tangents for me to grasp the concept well. I really appreciate this video.

Thank you so much for your videos, Tom. They have helped immensely for my studies of Literary Criticism.

Your content is helping me SO INCREDIBLY MUCH in my first year of cultural studies. I really appreciate the way you present these theories, makes it quite easy to grasp :)

Thank you for this explanaton! I was really confused from what I read in my textbook but after watching this video, it all now makes great sense

Thanks for that video ! That is one excellent summary of the ideas of structuralism which gives a nice overview of the subject matter and its key thinkers.

Read structuralism from Peter Barry, then watched this video and read Barry again. Felt like an altogether different text. Thanks for these videos, Tom.

Man. Thanks for this video, it's been super instructive. Well done

This has helped me a lot.Thanks Mr.Nicholas

now I want to research the history of Structalism in Psych it frustrates me to no end that literally none of my professors up until this point have mentioned that structalism was a literary theory because they seem to go really hand in hand Love your videos, especially this one! Combing through your catalog (since I've only recently found your channel) has been a blast

Thanks for sharing! After having lessons on Levi-Strauss and Totemism, haven't really got the idea of what structuralism means. This video helps me understand it better.

totally in love with this channel!!!

Tom, I love your channel. Thank you for it. I would love it if you did a video on dyadic pairs within structuralism.

Very well explained! Keep up the good work :)

thank you so much, this video was so helpful and it can allow to deepen my study on structuralism.

Discovered this channel recently, find your explanation of complex ideas very accessible, think this [apart from other things] makes your videos distinct, please, keep up the good work and videos coming.

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, really appreciate you saying so!

I'm seeing this for my Critical Theories exam tomorrow.. You're a life savior, thank you! 😄

Awesome presenting of the idea🙏

I love your videos, super accessible I started watching them under a year ago and go back and forth in the books and the authors you mention You are definately one of my top references/resources on the net Thanks and peace from Montréal

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm so glad you've found some of what I make useful!

amazingly thorough, thank you!

Fantastic this was the clearest resource on the matter I could find

Love your videos so much! You’re switching infer and imply, wanted to let you know.

Thank you for the clear explanation! It was very helpful!

Really great content. I wish you all the best :)

Your intro style reminds me of CBBC and I'm very much here for it P.s. appreciate what you do. Thank you!

Thank you! It is so well explained!

I have a midterm tomorrow and this really helped me. thanks man

My history professor has been discussing Saussure in class but it was mostly incoherent to me. You are much better at explaining stuff. Thank you!

THANK YOU !!!! I have been struggeling with this for so long !!

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

No worries, glad I was able to help in some way!

gosh, the animal/mineral/vegetable example was fantastic. so intuitive

Very, very useful!! 👏 Waiting for the next one.

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Really glad to hear it!

Damn, I appreciate your channel so much!

Hey Tom, thank you so much for this video. This is really very helpful for a student like me we have developed love in semiotics just a few days back and want to explore more and more in this field. Thank you ❤️

@cheikhhamel3782

2 жыл бұрын

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I'm studying linguistics at the university and we've been talking about Saussure for a month at every single class, starting with our professor saying that He's now our father, mother and lover at the same time. randomly seeing his name again on a youtube video was so weird anyway, great vid! I deeply enjoy your work

Yo Tom, much appreciated. Cheers.

I loved this one, it's been fascinating

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! So glad to hear that. Was slightly worried that I’d returned to the linguistics stuff a bit too often!

Thank you so much for this! Extremely helpful

Thank you sir for a comprehensive explanation of Structuralism.

Very nice explanation!

I subscribed. Thank you so much! You saved my life!!!

Thanks man ! Great video

I really like your work!!

I learned a bunch of this at design college. I have never used it much as a web developer but it was kinda interesting from what I remember of it.

well done. Really a great help

Brilliant Job. When you speak about myths it would be really interesting to mention René Girard, even though he's on a category of its own.

I love your videos! thank you!

Very digestible, thank you

Very well done. If you are not a professor, I humbly suggest you consider that field.

amazing content. Thank u so much

I've studied cultural studies for both my BA and MA and now started a phd in STS/history of science. It's shocking how much you forget if you're not actively using these things regularly. Really great videos! They help me refreshing my knowledge on key concepts in an accessible way when I can't bare reading another text. But one thing....why on earth would a cat hiss at a mouse?? ;)

@michaelmcilrath9466

Жыл бұрын

Mmmm bare…. bear…

I finally made it through this video😭. It took me a long time to fully absorb this but thank u so much for making this.

Excellent video. You could have as well added a mention to the works of Greimas and the discoursive (or french) semiotics. Accordinng to François Dosse "semiotics is to linguistics as algebra is to mathematics". Greimas' main work Structural Semantics is focused on how beyond the threshold of the phrase (considered the linguistic unit by Saussure), the text, or discourse also has an underlying structure. His concept of generative course of meaning is central to many works in literary and visual arts analysis. I myself wrote a paper analyzing a computer game, just as might a poem, a tale or a ballet.

You are the best university in the world. Thank you so much !

Can you please record a vid on the meaning of the term historicism. It appears to be used in different way by different scholars. Does it refer to a preoccupation with historical questions when considering texts or is it a reference to a particular way of thinking and of approaching texts by 19th century historians? Some clarification on this will be helpful. Thanks

@Tom Nicholas Thank you for this excellent taster on Structuralism. I am looking into the idea of meaning and this subject is a great area for studying that. It was great to see Propp's name come up only a day after I'd first heard him mentioned in a talk on Old Testament criticism. Regarding meaning, a few times you said that a sentence or text 'infers' something. I wonder whether you meant to say 'implies'. A writer may imply something by their words, i.e. point to something without saying it directly (implicit versus explicit) whereas it is the reader who infers something from the words by 'reading in' a meaning which they have imagined. For example, you might say, "Mary was not a cook" and you might mean to imply that she was an awful cook whereas I, the reader, could infer that she considered cooking to be a bad use of her time, or any other plausible idea. Usually, inference is the domain of the listener or reader rather than the speaker or writer.

@RamsesThePigeon

4 ай бұрын

I'm very pleased to have seen this comment, and I appreciate you offering friendly corrections where they're necessary.

Thank you! Most helpful❤️

Thank you for this informative vid.

I am a great fan of Propp (and Schlovsky). I used Barthes' S/Z writerly reading technnique for my Ph.D. dissertation, applyig it to Joyce's short story, "Clay" in Dubliners.

you are a very intelligent scholar. thanks for the explanation

I absolutely love your amazing channel!!!!! This is so amazing to even speak of all I want to say is your lovely! And please keep sharing its food I need! 🤪😉

Joseph Campbell’s, The Hero’s Journey, is a fascinating piece of work looking at the archetypes consistent throughout cultures found in literature.

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, The Hero With a Thousand Faces is an interesting piece of work and has had a massive impact particularly on film writing. I did have a whole bit about it in this video but I cut it for time in the end and because it’s more Jungian than Structuralist in its approach even if the results are similar. I don’t know in what esteem it’s viewed by anthropologists though.

@jamesroberts2282

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Nicholas your channel is still rocking it when it comes to the quality of its content. Keep up the good work.

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, really appreciate you saying so! I'll do my best!!

More video excellent-ness. Cheers. Keep it up. Love your enthusiasm.

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked!

Fascinating, thank you!

Good job!

love your videos and your infos, thank you for that. I must ask what did you study in uni ?

I appreciate that when you depicted Perseus at 8:43 you included the wang

Wonderful video, thanks!

@Tom_Nicholas

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers Ash, hope you enjoyed!

Once again your approach to something helped understand something else... Please, consider commenting Chomsky's "Manufacturing consent" with this stream ideas about structuralism in mind.

It s so fruitful academic feast. Thanx indeed

You are awesome.....thank you so much for sharing 🙏🙏

Movie mistake: the cat purred at the mouse. A great addition to my anthropology notes :)

Whoa, that's fancy, I'm subscribing.

I’m after a TELEOLOGICAL analysis of a text. Why was it written? What does it do to the reader? What are the real world downstream impacts of the text? How aware is the writer or speaker of these impacts, and can different texts be created to mitigate or assist these impacts? Take the text “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine; a teleological analysis could drill down to the tone he uses, the pamphlet as a medium, the cultural context and how he represents a group of people who sought change, his desire to shock or inspire his reader, what might have happened if he had never written it etc. Anyone known for this? Thanks for a superb video!!!

your videos help me a lot. I would do anything to get to know your channel earlier.

Awesome video BTW. 😃

I've been a student of Sanskrit and Sanskrit-based languages for some time now. There is a perception among Sanskrit students that the meaning of many Sanskrit words is somehow encoded into their sound, the effects they have on human physiology, their length, and their etymologies. How valid is the belief? I don't know, I'm just throwing the idea out there.

this is great. thanks

Hello, I'm new to your channel and it helps me in my major as A.B. literature. I'm just curious and want to ask. Are you a professor?

How would you review the magazine cover in a deconstructionist light? or you reckon that's an active deconstructionist cultural text in itself?