Pleasures of a Semiotician


 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 Unbreakable Code") 

-Erik Pevernagie 


7. "I tell myself I have reached an age, the age of unreliable menace. The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities" 


-Don Delillo, White Noise 

 

8. "This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden-if they were hidden. they could not be efficacious-but because they are naturalized"


-Roland Barthes 


9. "No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words" 

-Roger Zolazny 


10. "The unconcious is structured like a language" 


-Jacques Lacan



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