Comments on: What is semiotics? http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/05/19/what-is-semiotics/ UK Design and Web Agency Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:43:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Daryll http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/05/19/what-is-semiotics/#comment-1260 Daryll Wed, 21 May 2008 10:23:21 +0000 http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/05/19/what-is-semiotics/#comment-1260 This is another way of saying that the map is not the territory, the menu is not the food etc. A picture of a cow is not a cow. Embraced by many linguists (Including Dr. John Grinder) the expression was first coined in 1933 in a book called 'Science and Sanity' by Alfred Korsybski (not sure about the spelling - quoting from memory) There is a book out at the moment called 'The Black Swan' which uses different language to explain the same idiotic human phenomenon - there's a lot of it about. This is another way of saying that the map is not the territory, the menu is not the food etc.

A picture of a cow is not a cow. Embraced by many linguists (Including Dr. John Grinder) the expression was first coined in 1933 in a book called ‘Science and Sanity’ by Alfred Korsybski (not sure about the spelling - quoting from memory)

There is a book out at the moment called ‘The Black Swan’ which uses different language to explain the same idiotic human phenomenon - there’s a lot of it about.

]]> By: Louise http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/05/19/what-is-semiotics/#comment-1261 Louise Wed, 21 May 2008 13:34:20 +0000 http://blog.the-escape.co.uk/2008/05/19/what-is-semiotics/#comment-1261 The human mind - an odd thing - it just fascinates me to think we can be influenced even by a 'mythical sign' - something we have never actually seen but has been absorbed by the culture we live in - I mean, I have never seen the James Dean film 'Rebel Without A Cause' but I still somehow understand signs associated with it in my sub-conscious - we are almost over-burdened by these 'signifiers' - - they're everywhere, influencing both sexes. And as it says on the website, you can choose to step inside or outside of the framework they construct for us but it is almost impossible to ignore them altogether... I sometimes wish I was a dog. The human mind - an odd thing - it just fascinates me to think we can be influenced even by a ‘mythical sign’ - something we have never actually seen but has been absorbed by the culture we live in - I mean, I have never seen the James Dean film ‘Rebel Without A Cause’ but I still somehow understand signs associated with it in my sub-conscious - we are almost over-burdened by these ’signifiers’ - - they’re everywhere, influencing both sexes. And as it says on the website, you can choose to step inside or outside of the framework they construct for us but it is almost impossible to ignore them altogether… I sometimes wish I was a dog.

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