Pedagogy of the Oppressed Panel Notes
Symposium:
Session Title:
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Women, Men and the Cartesian Coordinate System (Gender/Blender: High & Low)
Presentation Title:
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed Panel Notes
Presenter(s):
Abstract:
Panel: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The Computer Graphics model for three dimensional Cartesian coordinate space is an implementation of an invented method for the description of “real” space. People have been using 3D interactive computer graphics for a little over thirty years. This model for describing space is used in computer graphics because it works; it’s practical. A lot of quality 3D computer graphics have been produced over the past 30 years, but no descriptive language is absolute. Cartesian coordinate space has its biases; it does some things very well and it
neglects others.
For a variety of reasons Western cultural and capitalist attitudes tend to falsely empower Cartesian coordinate space as absolute, and if not absolute then at least superior to other descriptive visual systems. A White heterosexual male point of view is dominant in this space and the pressures to create spaces, images, movement and narratives in a few limited styles reflecting the White male voice are great.
