asking questions

Early on in school we are taught to read texts, memorize facts, and to rarely question them. In the reading selection by Macherey he imposes the opposite. He suggests that all text have some sort of question or something missing that can always be added onto them. He suggests that we read as “critics” and look for “means to give it a different status, or even a different appearance,” (15). We should look beyond books as something rigid and set and look for what is absent. I believe that this is a great foundation for how we study Critical Media studies. Everything be it a text book, advertisement, tv show, ect has a deeper underlying meaning to it. It can be something that is straight forward, or something the reader has to dig deeper for. We should look beyond the actual words we are given and question their real meaning and intent. What we discover may be a different interpretation from what others think, but it imposes new ideas and concepts to think about.