Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Integrability Conditions For Differential Systems, Linguistic System, Margarine

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G
• Professor: Sasha Torres

Document Summary

Mit 2200f mapping media and cultural theory. Intellectual movement at the turn of the 20th century. Studied languages at the university of geneva, went on to the university of l____ Book was published based on the notes of his students. Book went on to be incredibly important among the humanities and social sciences. Ideas from the course he taught were widely influential in anthropology, philosophy, literature, etc. Great innovation the idea of the sign. Sign = union of the signifier and the signified. The sign is the union of the form (the word cat, or the picture of the cat) and the mental image that corresponds to the word cat for you. The signifier and the signified are two sides of the same piece of paper cannot have one without the other. The sign is arbitrary means that this association (the plus sign between signifier and signified) is an arbitrary association.