Chiasm of Thought-and-Action
How do I know the difference between you and me and how do we share our beliefs in the same? How are we made so obedient and so predictable? As a minimalist approach to these questions I imagine human thought-and-action as a double helix, It is assumed firstly, that man is a semiotic animal, a speci...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
1993
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Environment and planning. D, Society and space
Year: 1993, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 279-294 |
Further subjects: | B
Girard, René (1923-2015)
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Summary: | How do I know the difference between you and me and how do we share our beliefs in the same? How are we made so obedient and so predictable? As a minimalist approach to these questions I imagine human thought-and-action as a double helix, It is assumed firstly, that man is a semiotic animal, a species whose individuals are kept together and apart by their use of signs; secondly, that every sign within itself combines elements of drastically different ontologies. This invisible world is then captured in a three-dimensional coordinate system whose axes are those of identity, difference, and intentionality. While the resulting map is anchored in fix-points of silence, the real world of socialization and understanding is always in flux. The paper closes with a pastiche on Carl von Linné's Flora Suecica; in the current world of thought-and-action, signifier and signified are assigned the same ordering functions as stamina and pistil once were in the world of plants. How do I draw the invisible lines of the taken-for-granted? How do I project a dematerialized point onto a transparent plane? |
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ISSN: | 1472-3433 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Environment and planning. D, Society and space
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1068/d110279 |