CVSP 208B Final, Spring 2008

MERICAN PNT ERSet LIBRARY | OF RTE, BORNEDAL, FINAL EXAM, CS 208F. ee Student ID: Read first: You have 1 hour and 45 minutes. Handing in your paper after the exam is stopped will automatically apply 5 minus points to your grade. Books are permitted, but not notes. Sharing of books is not allowed and any talk during the exam is not allowed. Plagianism results in failure of quiz, and will be reported. QUESTION 1: Describe the difference between Nietzsche’s passive and active Nihilism! QUESTION 2: According to Freud, a child is born so-called ‘polymorph perverse’; What does he mean by that, and what happens in normal human development to this ‘polymorph perversity’? QUESTION 3: What is the difference between signifier and signified in Saussure; and what does it mean that the relationship between them is ‘arbitrary’? QUESTION 4: What is a so-called ‘mytheme’ in Levi-Strauss, and how does one discover/recognize a mytheme in a myth, a narrative, or a film? + | . M ihm, , - 7 i ! en ar i tea, ; eater, a : : aria ee . . QUESTION 5: If we organize the film King Kong in two univétses, an island universe and a New York universe, describe then what thematic (or ‘mythematic’) unit in New York would correspond to the following thematic unit on the island. 1) The marriage of J. Lange to Kong on the island'as .. 2) The oil-explorer (Grodin) falling into the hole of Kong’s foot print on the island as. . . 3) A twin rock formation on the island as... 4) Kong’s fight with the snake on the island as... 5) The triangle J. Lange + J. Bridges + Kong on the island as. . . 6) Kong being trapped by the oil-explorers on the island as... . 7) Finally, if Kong is the God for the indigenous islanders, what is Kong for the New Yorkers? QUOTATION: Explain the following passage From Kafka’s The Trial (chapter: ‘In the Cathedral’): From page 166 (mid) to page 167 (end): “Before the law stands a doorkeeper.... I shall now go and close it.” anne BSE ey AmeRicay ENTE | Lipkary | ee REIRET nl Essay: Write an essay including the following questions: What does it imply that labor-power is a commodity in Capitalism? What is the price of labor-power as commodity? Explain Marx’s formula 365A + 32B + 4C, etc. 365 What is the difference between exchange-value and use-value regarding labor-power? How is labor-power exploited in order to produce surplus-value? What does Marx explain by the following three models, A. B—C & A B—-C & A B —C? What does the ratio between BC and AB explain?