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Žižek Asks "What is Spinoza?": Tarrying With a Negative2 comments

kvond wrote 1 week ago: Where Spinoza Diverts From History Through some cursory discussion in which arose the comparison bet … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Spinoza, zizek, affects, affectuum imitatio, capitalism, Code Duality, dark precursor, Death Drive

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Tags: hair, Video

until next time

tigerswillfly wrote 5 months ago: I am rather enjoying the blog scene. They are interesting to reflect on and within. And these very w … more →

Tags: Miscellany, Blog, semiotics, Truth, Self, identity, Motive, Magic, anonymous dissemination

Signifiers and things

nerduprising wrote 8 months ago: Obviously bereft of a picture, a nail juts out from a blank wall. In some sense, this is representat … more →

Tags: notes, thingness, Art, Categories, Semantic Web

Can objects exist without being known?4 comments

okathleen wrote 10 months ago: There was a young man who said “God Must think it extremely odd That the sycamore tree Continu … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Idealism, Magritte, Signs

Good Men and Good Citizens

Seth A. Bishop wrote 1 year ago:  Good Men and Good Citizens: Inclusive and Exclusive Signifiers in Plato’s “Apology” And Arist … more →

Tags: essays, academic, Political Theory, The Greater Good, Politics, ancient political theory, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle

Don't affordances and signifiers go hand in hand?3 comments

rajasee17 wrote 1 year ago: I read Don Norman’s article ‘Signifiers, Not Affordances’ in the vol xv.6 Nov + Dec 08. In the artic … more →

Tags: Interaction design, HCI, Structuralism, Questions, design theory, Don Norman, affordance

Textbook: Signifiers and Signified (1st round)2 comments

HyunSeung wrote 1 year ago: I collected “signifiers” from textbooks and identified what those signifiers “signified”; Year of pu … more →

Tags: Structuralism, signified

Flash Fiction And Description (Article)

pittsburghflashfictiongazette wrote 1 year ago: If you’re writing a 400-1000 word story the scene is one of your most powerful tools to make t … more →

Tags: writing flash fiction, writing, Flash Fiction Stories by Guy Hogan, Short Stories, Tips, Subconscious

A Checkup on that Palinoscopy2 comments

lifeonuranus wrote 1 year ago: “That’s not change, that’s just calling some of the same something different. But … more →

Tags: Feminism, Politics, language, criticism, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, hillary clinton

motives

spitefulball wrote 1 year ago: lying on the floor, listening to old sad songs, watching the popcorn ceiling pretend to come down on … more →

Tags: Happenings, Crying

Safe? And for who?10 comments

cocoyea wrote 1 year ago: I was meeting my partner at this pub after work. We hadn’t been out in awhile, and the weather … more →

Tags: In the Life, Lesbian, Race issues, Immigration, Gay, Queer, Masculine, Drag Queen, Femme

We are the children of a system failure

bruitist wrote 1 year ago: We come across a multitude of symbols in this life. Most of them we barely notice. We pass them in t … more →

Tags: Information, Symbols, Signs, Earth, Computer, Infinite

What to do with signs?4 comments

nino wrote 2 years ago: What to do with signs? Same thing you, as creative writers, do with words (for words are signs, afte … more →

Tags: 1.4 Structuralism, 1.4.1 Saussurean linguisitcs, Ferdinand De Saussure, language, Langue, Linguistics, parole, semiotics, Signifieds


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