February 2012
51 posts
“The essential feature of Saussure’s linguistic sign is that, being intrinsically arbitrary, it can be identified only by contrast with coexisting signs of the same nature, which together constitute a structured system” (p. x).
In Saussure’s theory of linguistics, the signifier is the sound and the signified is the thought. The linguistic sign is neither conceptual nor...
“Others have advanced the view that conscious states and processes are simply less significant and less interesting than unconscious phenomena. The views of Freud and Chomsky have been especially influential. Freud’s most general claim, that unconscious mental processes are complex and ubiquitous (Freud 1915), is widely accepted and is clearly supported by contemporary research in...
Now summer has passed,
As if it had never been.
It is warm in the sun.
But this isn’t enough.
“All that might have been,
Like a five-cornered leaf
Fell right into my hands,
But this isn’t enough.
Now summer has passed,
As if it had never been.
It is warm in the sun.
But this isn’t enough.
All that might have been,
Like a five-cornered leaf
Fell right into my...
how does one become a creep?
corpse magazine: rise of the idiots →
Corpse is back up and running… because after twenty two years of creative writing. I realize I still like to write.
corpse-shiche:
A few days ago I had received a flashing notification on my corporate phone from a mere acquaintance. It was an invitation to the G8/NATO protests. His avatar immediately formed in the front of my closed eyes boiling with confused vitriol. I could see he...
“years of ex girlfriends with drug problems had taught him to leave them all well enough alone.”
the saddest thing about life is that you have to live with everyone’s unresolved pathos regarding death which can look a lot like tiamat when left unchecked.
Watchbecause vimeo is better
“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.”