Italianalysis No. 1 May 29, 2011

In Italy, sport is religion, religion is politics and politics is sport.  Robert Dennis, 28th May 2011

Ikea, You-kea, Wikipedia December 6, 2009

Baudrillard’s The System of Objects  ‘attempts to discern the abstract language that underlies our relationship with ordinary, domestic objects, arguing that we interact with them not so much in terms of their ostensible use value or function but as a way of communicating with others.’ [My emphasis] Rex Butler, “Jean Baudrillard, The Defence of the [...]

Up close and impersonal December 6, 2009

‘One can then maintain that it is not true that a code organizes signs; it is more correct to say that codes provide the rules which generate signs as concrete occurences in communicative intercourse. Therefore the classical notion of ‘sign’ dissolves itself into a highly complex network of changing relationships. Semiotics suggests a sort of [...]