Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nine...
Language disguises thought.
(n.) Semeiology.
(n.) Same as Semeiotics.
I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. "Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is what remains of the house. One is still prone to think of a house a...
One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others, in fact I waited for these signs I had begun to recognize, I sought them, responde...
Everything means something, Lyra said severely. We just have to find out how to read it.
Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in...