Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Midterm: takeaways midterm .docx
9 Feb 2015
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Stripper: we lie despite what we say our signs mean (rachel isn"t a police office but a woman, an officeresse, the same signifier can have a huge variety of signifieds, private sign systems are concise powerful, revealing, if you know the system, all public sign system are loaded in terms of race, class, gender (atleast one, we are always trying to understand what a text meant to them: there, then (ex. Falling down day 1: film has its own language of sign, look for repeating signs, pay attention to all kinds of signs (sound, music, light, camera), any text can be read or decoded this way and you can do it, modernity a world made by machine labor, taylorism made that world more efficient.
