Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic System, Oil Sands, Integrability Conditions For Differential Systems
30 Jul 2018
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Ferdinand de saussure (he has one book under his name and it wasn"t written by him, it was compiled by his students) It is a relationship that is conventional and shared between a community of linguistic speakers: a signifier can link to different signifieds, different concepts can be attached to the same signifier, ex. Saussure and linguistics: language is not a nomenclature (set of things and a set of words for those things, ex. Genesis 2:19: - the man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field . If language were a nomenclature, translation would be easy. 3 arguments saussure had with other people: diachronic vs. synchronic, nomenclature, langue vs. parole. Myth uses pre-existing signs as the signifiers for a second order of signification. Myth is depoliticized speech (254: barthes: myth confuses nature and history, why does the confusion of nature and history matter so much, ex.
