Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Integrability Conditions For Differential Systems, Signify, Linguistic System
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Mit 2200 mapping media & cultural theory: lecture 2. Students put together class notes in a book based off his ideas (cid:12254) Students felt like they were encountering something new and significant. His ideas about language became very influential way beyond the study of linguistics (media studies, anthropology, etc) (cid:12254) Made up of 2 parts, the signifier + the signified = the sign. The form can be many things, it could be a word, or a picture, or a less specific picture (ex: a silhouette) The idea/concept that is linked to the signifier. These both work in our head, mental images that we see, and the ideas we connect to the signifiers. The sign is made up of those two pieces, are inseparable as two sides of a piece of paper (cid:12254) Cannot imagine a signifier without the concept that comes with it, because they"re so inextribicaly linked.