the Words Made Flesh

 Said about the field of  Semiotics:  1.  "Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be  used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot be used to telll at all" - Umberto Eco  2. " You cannot not communicate" -Paul Watzlawick  3. "To survive, you must tell stories"  -Umberto Eco  4. "The photograph, for all its promised immortality, always hinted at death"  -Rolard Barthes  5. "Language disguises thought"  -Ludwig Wittgenstein  6. "Codes and semiotic conventions are a challenge for human communication, since they seal off people with a privacy protection label and make them accessible only by means of a barcode that might estrange them from their surrounding but, at the same time, procure them a kind of reassurance in their comfort zone.  This dialectical situation may keep them struggling their entire life" ("The ...