Gee Discourses- Pictures of Non-Human and Human Elements

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For class on Thursday we were asked to present pictures that represented our ideas of a quote from "Living Through Discourses," "Meaningful coordinations of human and non-human elements, besides people themselves, the human elements of coordinations include people's ways of thinking, acting, feeling, moving, dressing, speaking, gesturing, believing and valuing. Non-human elements of coordination include: tools, objects, institutions, networks, places, vehicles, machines, physical spaces, buildings. Within such coordinations we humans become recognizable to ourselves and others in meaningful and distinct ways." Using this quote I used pictures that I already had archived from different albums on Facebook. I don't really have a very good camera so I thought it best to use pictures that were better quality. The first picture I used was of the "Walter J. Sondheim" statue outside of the building where we have class. One day I decided it would be really funny to put my tam on his head and my clutch in his hand and take a picture (who knows...it was a crazy day). I thought this picture most fit with this quote because despite the fact that the statue is really just a hunk of bronze, we humans gave him a face and features similar to humans to humanize him. When I saw him I wanted to make him even more in my image and give him a jaunty little hat and purse. This is human elements meeting non-human elements.
The second picture I used was of me waving to the camera, this idea fits within the "gesturing" part of the quote. Although a raised hand could mean many things, humans give it a human meaning.
The third picture I used was of a light I found at "Tutti Frutti" which despite being un-human looks like some sort of cellular or multi-cellular being when presented by itself. I thought it was an interesting non-human element.
The fourth picture I used was of a picture of the National Botanical gardens with a shadow of myself taking a picture strewn across the flowers. I though that this not only fit with the media related aspects of this class but also with the non-human, human elements. Is a shadow human or non-human??