Opposition  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
Revision as of 17:24, 9 March 2008
Jahsonic (Talk | contribs)

← Previous diff
Revision as of 21:18, 3 May 2010
Jahsonic (Talk | contribs)
(Some opposites)
Next diff →
Line 36: Line 36:
[[men]] - [[women]] [[men]] - [[women]]
 +
 +[[vice]] - [[virtue]]
== Oppositional tastes == == Oppositional tastes ==

Revision as of 21:18, 3 May 2010

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

Contents

In politics

In politics, the opposition comprises one or more political parties or other organized groups that are opposed to the government, party or group in political control of an area, county, or state.

Related

anti- - contra - contradiction - counter - dialectics - dichotomy - rebellion - resistance - subversion

Contrast

obedience - submission

Some opposites

mainstream - underground

good - bad

Dionysian - Apollonian

eros - thanatos

heaven - hell

hero - villain

boredom - ecstasy

soft - hard

black - white

left - right

comedy - tragedy

day - night

low - high

men - women

vice - virtue

Oppositional tastes

  • Defining Cult Movies : The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Tastes (2003) - Various ISBN 071906631X

See oppositional tastes


All determination is negation

"In matters of taste, more than anywhere else, all determination is negation, and tastes are perhaps first and foremost distastes, disgust provoked by horror or visceral intolerance of the tastes of others … Aesthetic intolerance can be terribly violent. Aversion to different lifestyles is perhaps one of the strongest barriers between the classes…" (Pierre Bourdieu 1984: 56)

Counterculture

In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group identified by the cultural equivalent of political opposition.



Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Opposition" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools