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Posts Tagged ‘semiotics’
Researching means “Searching Again”
I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on various subjects, but particularly the subject of chairs. I have recently become blessed with an abundance of seating, most of which have been discarded by their previous owners and refinished by Justin and me.
So the other night I was trying to find the name of a [...]
A Book About Death – Matthew Rose Project at Emily Harvey Foundation
This is my submission for the exhibit at Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC, in September. More information about the show can be found here. The cards will be signed, stamped and numbered on the back in an “edition” of 500 for the project.
I have two runners-up, in the event I change my mind between now and [...]
A course of the Alphabet
(all bolded emphasis is mine)
I was reading the preface to a Latin/English dictionary and ran across this:
The letter c, derived from Greek, was at first used both for the sound of English g in go and for the sound of k . As it continued to be used for k , the letter k [...]
Duchamp and Language
apropos: Not written by Duchamp, rather by David Antin in the book, Marcel Duchamp. It is presented without any punctuation nor capitalization, so I will try to adhere for continuity.
everybody knows what a word is except a linguist it is very hard for a linguist to define a word but its not at all hard [...]
Sunday
I spent the day reading and writing notes on semiotics and hermeneutics, revisiting a lot of books I haven’t seen in a long time. Passages in particular:
“Words get their meanings by interacting with other words. Every word in a sentence leaves its traces on the word behind and is open to the word ahead. Every [...]