Not Waiving but drafting

[faustus]

Originally posted 9.37pm, 27 December: Today I have been listing (if not sinking). Really I should be expanding one lecture on structuralism into two - although the one is really two already as it imploded under its own weight. Somehow I have to end up with The Truman Show because I thought it would be neat to show that the following week.

Tomorrow I can look for pictures. I've time to do that. But producing material was atoday-only deal.

I have vacuumed the stairs. The bottles are in the bottle banks.

I have a feeling there is a very neat link. Truman Show. Structuralism. I usually twiddle with pictures for my slides, and suddenly the slides at the start pay off with the ones at the end. The Scream ends up with American Gothic. Like I planned it. Sometimes I did. Sometimes I do it consciously.

Sometimes there is no link.

I have now decided that I can show a 23 minute clip to demonstrate the syntagmatic dimension of the sign. That's a third of a lecture. If I show the other version of it that's a second third. Even without it, I think I have enough to make two lectures now. Steal Umberto Eco on James Bond. The Levi-Strauss Raw Food Cookery Book. Sixguns and Sixpacks. Now to make sure the clip takes us to the end of the first hour. The niceties of timing a two hour session.

I read once that the index-icon-symbol triadic sign of Peirce is one triad of several. It's the “triadic relation of performance”. We ignore the others. And they can overlap. If you see a dicent-symbol-legisign, run.

Prevarication's all you need.

Let's demonstrate a repeated social ritual:

status quo: writing lecture
chaos: going down the pub
new status quo: writing end of lecture

It's my unconscious that made me do it.

Edit 3.15am: Finished words now. Have run a mile from the Barthes/Myth stuff, but they've had that on another module. The long clip comes at slide 19 of 33 - short of going really fast that's not halfway. I wonder if I can skip their break? H'mmm. Okay, grab five hours sleep if I may (I was staring at the ceiling at this time yesterday) then an hour adding more pictures, then trimming the key words away to leave a shell to note take to.

Oooh, we have no quotations in this lecture.

So it goes.

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[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

For the last three years we used notions of vampirism to discuss feminism, psychoanalysis, ethnicity, semiotics, masculinity etc, only for the students to just write about Buffy and ignoring the pill. A tad like cats, but without the cunning.