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• in Entertainment
  The Book of Symbols: Reflection on Archetypal Images by The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
  “It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.” — C. G. Jung
  by fcetier / on Dec 11, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “semiotics”

 

• The Gist by Michael Marshall Smith

  
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  book When I was young, there was a very famous story about miscommunication during the First World War. Allegedly, the original message sent was, “Send reinforcements. We are going to advance.” but by the time the relay radio operators had finished transmitting and retransmitting it, the message became, ...
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• Elmer Gantry Was Drunk

  
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  From the gantry of a bar are reflected many-hued liquids in bottles. There are mirrors and lights and sometimes still, smoke and snake oil. The Florence Scovel Shinn texts from yesterday led to more related matters such as various charasmatic evangelicals. I was looking for a pertinent good photo from the ...
  6 days ago

• Flos Game of Life: Your Word Is Your Wand

  
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  Im endlessly interested in what people have to say and how they say it. Or write it. Or otherwise express themselves. One strand of communicated thought returns over and over again right through the year 2013, and thats "the power of the word / the Word." Where does it all come from? Stuff like, "When one door ...
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• Visual Proverbs

  
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  The unit on non-verbal communication in our speaking book is very confusing. It seems to be written as an excuse to do charades in class, as it’s been introduced after the unit about movies. The unit about movies doesn’t work in the Institute class because there is a huge age gap between students and no one has ...
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• The Charge of the Light Brigade (Take Two)

  
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  You might come away from Tony Richardsons The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) asking a lot of questions in wonderment. For example: What role did horses play in society then, and how about now, and in between, and in future, and in the way back when? How and why has this changed over time, and ...
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• where Calvin went wrong

  
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  William Dyrness writes, “In his instructions on church order, John Calvin includes a detail that is often overlooked: he insists that outside of regular worship hours, the church building should be locked. I find that besides explaining why Protestant sanctuaries always seem closed during the week, this detail ...
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• emerging churches in post-Christian Canada

  
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  “What do a young political radical with dreadlocks, a middle-aged former business executive, and a graduate student share in common? Quite a lot, as it turns out. They represent the new and emerging face of Christianity in post-Christian Canada. They are a counter narrative to the popular story that Christianity is ...
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• gesture differences around the world...read this and youll never leave home

  
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  As anyone who has lived in another country knows: signs are significant gestures differences are huge hand signals are signally handy The catch is what does a gesture or hand motion mean/sign-ify in the nation you are in. Using the wrong one could get you stared at, laughed at, married,  though to be a ...
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• In the Port of Amsterdam -- or Copenhagen

  
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  If cameras serve as visual "recording angels," heres a mystery along the lines of Michelangelo Antonionis Blowup / aka Blow-Up (1966). It imprints the possibilities of a story or some sort of reconstructed memory.  Resurrecting images from a scanned negative, even though I snapped this picture theres ...
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• "Hes Dead. Im Crippled. Youre Lost."

  
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  And now for something completely different: epic war movies. There are many, but the best ones are able to let history speak on a grand scale, without simplistic renderings or overly partisan agendas. The ones I prefer try to get at all sides of war, not just the immediate victors or -- as is the case with most ...
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• Question on semiotics and the theory of mind

  
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  I am interested in trying to understand how our ability and inability to understand symbols in relation to their meanings binds people together as well as forming in- and out-groups. I have had a difficult time in finding works that go along with this premise and would be interested if anyone would know of good ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three Blind Mice & Hickory Dickory Dock

  
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  The other day while driving, "Three Blind Mice" came to mind. Why? Who knows? Main thing was the realization, as an adult, that its a weird little song, really. Heres the truly old school (early 1600s) version, going back to about the same time Jamestown was founded in the Old Dominion some four hundred years ago: ...
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• Harbored in the Event (of Unity) or, Inigo Montoya on Semiotics?

  
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  Who does not love Inigo Montoya ? The accomplished swordsman possessed with avenging his father’s death at the hands of the six-fingered man often questions Vizinni’s use of inconceivable, Vizzini : HE DIDN’T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE. Inigo Montoya : You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you ...
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• Pied: Der Rattenfänger von Hameln

  
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  " The Ratcatcher of Hamelin " is a version of the Pied Piper fairytale written by the Brothers Grimm in the nineteenth century. The idea of "paying the piper" has made its way into common usage at all levels of society, and for good reason. If one does not eventually pay the piper for specific services ...
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• Francis of Assisi, Medieval Saint

  
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  The idea and example of Saint Francis of Assisi (ca. 1181-1226) makes many a person happy, and few angry. Why? Furthermore, he was fast-tracked to sainthood less than two years after his death by Pope Gregory IX.  Biographer André Vauchez contextualizes for us -- as translated by Michael F. Cusato -- in ...
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• God’s participation in culture

  
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  “Radical orthodoxy locates the contemporary flattening of culture in the loss of its sense of “participation” in God. But Calvin in particular insisted that, while God sustains the world and works in it, the world has its own special goodness because of its created character — precisely because it is not God. ...
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• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

  
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  Alison Klaymans Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) rocks much more than the slow boat to China. Ai Weiwei and his crew hold high the torch of liberty in the Peoples Republic, a dangerous proposition given the authoritarian government and its clumsy, sporadically brutish crackdowns on freedom of expression. ...
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• digital vertigo

  
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  “Unlike most commentators, Andrew Keen observes the internet as if from a distance. Digital Vertigo may be one of the few books on the subject that, twenty years from now, will be seen to have got it right.” - Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP “In a world of cheerleaders promoting a Randian cult of connectedness for ...
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• technology, youth, imagination

  
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  “We need to consider the paradox of these digital devices: On one hand, they can contribute to heightened productivity and a greater connection to the global community; yet on the other, we experience an increasing sense of loneliness and isolation that leads to many mental and physical health risks that threaten ...
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• End of Watch

  
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    David Ayers End of Watch renews and refreshes the now many decades-old "cop buddy story." Whats delivered is insight into how far policing has changed -- particularly American policing in a quasi-guerilla urban war environment. Weve come a long way since the first appearances of Twelve Angry Men and ...
  4 weeks ago

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