Theme 2 - Reflection

During this week and the theme critical media studies I had some concepts that I didn’t understood: dialectical, substructure and superstructure. But after the class on Tuesday, they become more clear and acceptable, but still I have more to learn.

Some of the most interesting concepts the lecture was about were the nominalism, which means that the name if a thing has nothing in common with the objects existence. Is has now become more clear and I understand the words significance. But still I think it’s a useless word in the way of describing something, if it’s just a “name” why can’t it at the same time be the description and connection to the thing. Why do they analyse it as just a name? I understand the word, but not the meaning and the purpose of it.

I expected more in-depth description of what substructure and superstructures are, and how these connect the theory of enlightenment to the today’s societies structures. I would like to clarify these concepts more to put them in a reliability example, and through that understand them in a general perspective.