Sarahel's Semiotics 4U

log is like a phallic crocodile totem

it is his superego. the small one is his ego, the alsatian his id

the small dog is real

lol

http://i.imgur.com/VSxOsMl.jpg

it really looks like a stuffed toy

it looks meek and apprehensive.

little doesn't know what is going on yet but is thinking, i will be first against the wall.

you are all focussing on what turns out to be the least important of the three participants in the story they belong to

http://img.izismile.com/img/img3/20100715/640/awkward_family_photos_640_10.jpg

that one definitely refers to classical representations of the holy mother and child, with the cat standing in for Jesus and the large stuffed rabbit for the Virgin Mary.

specifically paintings of the Adoration of the Magi -- except in this photograph, there is a flatness, the man (magi) is right next to the Virgin Mary (the rabbit) and the baby Jesus (the cat), as opposed to at an angle from the mother & child. This is definitely redolent of the post-modern age of this image -- we no longer need to concern ourselves with the issues of perspective that the Renaissance painters did.

http://i.imgur.com/tCwqS6g.jpg

The-shape-things-come-dog-grooming-Pets-fur-trimmed-make-heads-square-circular-bizarre-new-trend-Taiwan.html

Many are now opting for the cuts simply to get more likes and shares on social media sites.

http://www.radioactiva.cl/files/2014/07/hair_man-387096.jpg
http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1545023/meet-square-head-bro-taiwanese-man-blockhead-hairstyle

Wu, whose hair casts a 90 degrees right angle silhouette, told local reporters that he was still single and had difficulty attracting women, despite having a decent job that afforded him a salary of 70,000 Taiwan dollars a month (HK$18,000).

After being rejected by a girl, the dramatic hairstyle was adopted in an effort to “look more like a young guy in his 20s or 30s”, Wu said.

i think this is about toast:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k5_uSmxzH5w/TaETz8nYXFI/AAAAAAAACFY/TMtkOOQ_bOY/s1600/Picture%2B1.png

http://americanlivewire.com/wp-content/uploads/Sonneveld.jpg

http://americanlivewire.com/wp-content/uploads/Sodahead.jpg

The harsh, angular edges of square objects… suggest masculine temper while the round shape of a circle implies the gentleness of a woman.

The Circle, bluntly, in Circle in the Square represents the female, the rounded shape or 'hole' of her reproductive organs, while the Square means the line of the penis. The Circle is within the Square, that is symbolically and effectively ruled by the male, even where metaphysically (for instance in the medieval cosmogony where the encircling ether or sky is female, while the encircled fountain represented by the Hebrew letter yod is male), or materially (during coitus, or while pregnant) she seems to surround and contain the male; for her purpose for being is in nourishing and setting off the glory and power, and to serve, and ultimately, "when she is good", to become the crown of, the male organ or as Wolfson explains, the woman's highest pride would be to inhabit the very corona of the circumcised penis!

also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_formal_garden

http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/9780486600680_p0_v2_s260x420.JPG

but mostly, poor doggy [ :( ]

sarahell i saw this and thought of you, wanted to post before i forgot
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-clowns-and-clowning-9781472532787/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The%20Semiotics%20of%20Clowns%20and%20Clowning&utm_campaign=NL-CT_Semiotics%20of%20Clown%20and%20Clowning_June/

hahahah i find clowns disturbing!

What are people's thoughts on concrete poetry? I ask because I used to read a lot of that kind of stuff, and I'm now reading Perloff's 'unoriginal genius' and I noticed she views it differently from me. She sees I as a somewhat conservative trend which equates the signified and the sign. I always felt that it was contrasting the signal and the sign, exposing contradictions and opening up new ways to experience characters and text separated from their normal usage.

I know, of course, that concrete poetry isn't enormously popular, I just figured that the typographical possibilities of the internet would bear it's legacy somewhat. Does anyone have any thought, knowledge etc to bear?

I always felt that gomringer's silencio https://i2.wp.com/media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lat7dvHeL31qzkabq.gif is contrasting the for of the word 'silence' with what it signifies, for example

linked to by a friend on fb:
http://www.racked.com/2016/9/19/12865560/politics-of-pockets-suffragettes-women

special request 4 semiotic breakdown of veronica, betty and cheryl blossom particularly vis-a-vis cheryl blossom's interruption/addition to riverdale continuity

When I think about people “doing semiotics at Brown” I still get a tingle down my spine

— Naomi Fry (@frynaomifry) June 22, 2018

What does a Sarahel think of ‘The Uprising’ by Berardi? Reading it in the pub atm.

haven't read it. but I do recommend David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules

I’ll check it out! I’ve read Debt and Direct Action - I think I tended to enjoy the anecdotes and ephemera within them more than the overall project, but I did enjoy them.

the anecdotes are good -- I feel like that's where he excels as a writer in this vein

22nd Street tiger painting is gone

that's it, Mission is over

HOW DARE THEY!!!!!!!!!!

Also this is the perfect thread for that info.

special request 4 semiotic breakdown of veronica, betty and cheryl blossom particularly vis-a-vis cheryl blossom's interruption/addition to riverdale continuity

― Mordy, Wednesday, December 14, 2016 5:44 PM (one year ago

In the TV show? I watched it only a few months ago! Riverdale and Gotham are kinda my inexplicable faves rn

i really meant in the comix - cheryl blossom was foregrounded in the world of the show but in the comix iirc she was always an interpolation. "now introducing cheryl!" or like an image of cheryl driving into town in a corvette and veronica and betty put out by archie crushing on her. narratively i think this is obv an opportunity to unite veronica + betty against an outside force but these figures do seem archetypical to me like it's not a coincidence that the brunette + blonde's quest for the all american boy is hijacked by a red head but i'm not 100% sure why i know it's contained within the semiotics of hair color, gender norms + american small town mythos among other things but i can't extract it.

I never read the comix ... so all I have to go on is the tv show. Having her be revealed as queer was a shift, and kinda felt like a tension release in a way? I kinda don't know how I feel about it. I guess one thing that connects Riverdale & Gotham (outside of being based on comics) tv shows, is the way that they incorporate the retro and the contemporary. Like, these shows are "period" and also not, but they try to make it appear cohesive ... idk.

Gotham's even "weirder" in that it incorporates (or tries to) elements from multiple time periods, as opposed to Riverdale which is just 50s + contemporary

riverdale feels like a subversion of the comix - like a lynchian undressing of idyllic small town american high school life. by contrast sabrina despite being also a much more mature + at times disturbing version of its source material feels like it preserves the essential conflicts of the original work. it's just like a much darker take on the torn between two worlds narrative and wanting to be a normal teenager etc. on the show do betty + veronica ever fight over archie? i only watched the first few episodes and the show seemed to be studiously avoiding putting them in competition over his affection.

they don't really fight over archie. show begins with betty having a thing for archie, but she later gets over it and dates jughead. betty and jughead, and veronica and archie who are also a couple, break up for a short time, and archie and betty kiss during this time. but theres not really any "fighting" and both respective couples get back together

it definitely does the Lynch thing, sometimes so much so that I'm rolling my eyes. It's fun tho. I like Gotham better. It actually is interesting in terms of commentary on mental health issues

also re Riverdale, there's the extra-textual thing of Archie's parents being played by Molly Ringwald and Dylan from 90210

i keep getting ads for this company. this is one of the ads -- from a Marx-informed perspective -- this whole ad campaign is ... damn ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho4LUg9avZA