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9) In the visual display of such an object, a would-be thief is interpellated through a communicative act (Althusser 1994:139, n. Historically, the Ethnic Studies classroom has been viewed as an educational space where "the notion of the 'subject' interpellated by the university is altered and revised in light of the heterogeneous social formations of racial, ethnic, and immigrant minority subjects" (Lowe 52)--in other words, an explicitly politicized arena that makes visible the discipline's ideological investments. Their images literally lifted and transplanted from periphery to center, these spectators were virtually inserted into the action--their behaviors of passively gazing, nervously gesturing, and just plain doing nothing rendered weirdly riveting when projected next to and interpellated by the band's "live performance," as it were. |
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