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.

Comments

[buffysquirrel.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I looked up syntagm in the dictionary, but I don't feel a whole lot wiser :).

Hope the lecture comes together before you run out of displacement activities!

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Really I should be expanding one lecture on structuralism into two

Will that be in a form you could e-mail to me? I am not at all sure I understand structuralism, and would like to see what you have to say about it.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I read it as the notion syntax but suffering from an excess of catarrh (something I can {koff] sympathise with right now).

The syntagmatic dimension is the order in which signs are encountered in a sentence [etc] - the order changing the meaning:

You are going to the pub.
Are you going to the pub?
Are going pub the to you.

(The paradigmatic is the choice of signs from the pool of appropriate ones:

Are you going to the pub?
Are you going to the Doves?
Are you going to the house of ill repute?
Are you going to the boozer?)

I have maybe two hours tomorrow (today) - then January sales.

(is that another sign of global warming?)

I just stacked the bottles that didn't make it for recycling out of the way...

Next job is to tidy the desk, the office, the route from the office to the top of the stairs... After all, N will need to check I've turned everything is off when we leave on Saturday and he can't see it like this.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

"notion of syntax"

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

The existing lecture (which talks about vampires) is a powerpoint that weighs in at a meg, but may not make sense without the running commentary.* I'll email you that and chapter 5 of the Film Studies book (which talks Resevoir Dogs as I recall).



* Or, indeed, with.

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Oooh, vampires. Ta, I will appreciate it. I'm not sure "enjoy" is really the right word, although I think it might be enjoyable to hear it as delivered.

[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.

[buffysquirrel.livejournal.com]

Thanks :). I think I almost got my head round that!

We took some bottles and jars to the recycling, and I was having fun lobbing them through the hole...until one bounced off and landed on my foot. Ow!