Debating in A Vacuum
“It’s like a jigsaw puzzle, all one color. No key to where the pieces fit in.”
Semiotics
Untangling the webs of significance within which we've suspended ourselves.
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"Semiotics plays a crucial — even cruel, sometimes — role in guiding understanding."
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"No matter how disruptive our insights may be, we must communicate them fearlessly."
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"A semiotician must be a 'possibilist'…"
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"Semiotics is like the 'Matrix' — it has its own plans for you, no matter what you may have intended."
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"Semiotics may be limiting itself to solving bourgeois problems."
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"Cycling through states of mind is tricky stuff."
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"It’s like a kind of jazz anthropology."
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"Watching, listening, seeing, feeling, multiplying the stimuli…"
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"Closing the gap between what brands think they are communicating and what they’re actually communicating."
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"The thrill when it all comes together is incomparable."
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"You can think deeply about seemingly silly things, and derive meaning from them belied by their simplicity."
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"You have to understand the situation first and then decide which tools to use."
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"A purely analytical approach can't answer the question of what and where to analyze."
The Real Thing
"A popular life ‘with the lid off.’”