CMNS 304W Lecture 2: Week 2
24 Mar 2016
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4 assignments: (cid:1) to mimic: put tings on the page. 50 mins: or upload words: understanding words: transitions through time, how it (cid:1) (cid:1) changes through context. Give and give off impression? (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Reading: talks about the meaning of the words. How the meaning of word like greatness has changed through time. How many different meaning does a word holds. The way a word can be linked to different concepts. The way the word leaves an impression on the other person. How words give political meaning to different things or let"s say advertisements. (cid:1) Wilbur, oz, the great books, the great tradition. Greatness is an effect of decontextualization, of the decontextualizing of the sign and of a fantasy of control, a fantasy of the sujet suppos savoir, of a powerful agency, divine or other. (cid:1) Baggage: word for next week. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)
