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Art and Technology

Bell hooks' quotation regarding the proper perspective that one should have when conducting cultural criticism involves the "disruption of the colonized/colonizer mindset," which means that individuals who aim to provide a fair and objective criticism of culture must be free from any biases or predetermined prejudices and opinions about that particular culture. Disruption of the colonized/colonizer mindset is necessary because analysis and findings regarding the study of a particular culture entails objectivity, and failing to do so would result to an invalid and unreliable approach and result to the researcher's findings. Thus, a disruption of an individual's mindset about a culture being superior or inferior is a necessary tool in order to achieve objectivity and accuracy in research. Furthermore, "border crossings" means that a researcher must be able to immerse himself with the dynamics of the culture he is studying in order to get a better and proper perspective in studying the society's culture.

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Aside from discarding subjectivity, the researcher must learn how to place himself in the society's culture for a better study of it. In "reinscribing old patterns," bell hooks refers to the establishment of the original culture of the society that a researcher aims to study. Re-inscription also means instilling once again to the people of that society to be re-introduced to the culture that their society had once subsisted to, long before colonization and other foreign influence have mixed with the original culture of the society. Bell hooks therefore means in her quote that researchers, in order to arrive at an objective cultural criticisms as well as to effectively 're-introduce to the people the original culture that they have, must be free from predetermined notions or biases about the culture they….....

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