Sept 9
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Sept 9 Schedule for Uncreative Designing
3:00 | Class Performance & Critique of new objects |
4:20 | Break |
4:30 | Semiotics Lecture & Object Sorting |
5:20 | Discussion of The Terrifying Beauty of Absence |
6:00 | Use the remaining time to make static two-dimensional representations of each of your objects. |
Readings for Today:
- Alexander D'Hooghe The Terrifying Beauty of Absence
- This might be one of the best essays I've read in my entire life.
- Byung-Chul Han 한병철 複製 Fuzhi: Copy from Shanzhai
Semiotics Lexicon:
Signifier | a sign's physical form (such as a sound, printed word, or image) as distinct from its meaning. Compare with signified, referent. |
Signified | the meaning or idea expressed by a sign, as distinct from the physical form in which it is expressed. Compare with signifier, referent. |
Referent | the thing that a word or phrase denotes or stands for: “the Morning Star” and “the Evening Star” have the same referent (the planet Venus). Compare with signifier, signified. |
Icon | a signifier that physically resembles the thing it represents. Compare with index, symbol. e.g., ☎ |
Index | a signifier with a direct link to what it represents. Compare with icon, symbol. e.g., ☠, ⌛ |
Symbol | an arbitrary signifier with no resemblance or link to what it represents. The meaning of a symbol must be learned. Compare with icon, index. e.g., ☮, ☣ |
Morpheme | the smallest meaningful lexical item in a language. "Unbreakable" is composed of three morphemes: un- (a bound morpheme signifying "not"), break (the root, a free morpheme), and -able (a bound morpheme signifying "an ability to be done"). |
Ideogram | a written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. e.g., 42 and 果. |
Pictogram/Pictograph | a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. e.g. hirogliphics, ☺ |
Logogram | a sign or character representing a word or phrase, such as those used in shorthand and some writing systems. e.g. &, $, % |
Lorum | Lorum |
Lorum | Lorum |