semiotics

[Michael Bailey]

Glenn Scheper wrote:
> lecture series:
>http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb/cyber/sim1.html

good stuff!
"the claim of privileged knowledge of "context" or "intention" or
"meaning" is truly difficult to support, especially considering that
this would be a meaning constructed by the decoder as opposed to the
encoder. In fact, it seems certain that an encoder is ultimately
incapable of enforcing any significant control over what the decoder
does with a given sign-vehicle."

ie, any reader is free to misinterpret _Gravity's Rainbow_

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1,6 - no Pirate, no Slothrop, I'm getting the idea that there's a
viewfinder that isn't exactly fixated on any one character.

I checked out the Wikipedia entry for Tunbridge Wells (where R & J
meet) and learned that "The famous mathematician the Reverend Thomas
Bayes lived in Tunbridge Wells" - I've heard of Bayesian analysis,
perhaps at some point I can apply that to the text (-:
However, the article goes on to cite a series of letters to the Times
in the 1920's that were signed "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells"
Also, Lawrence of Arabia mentioned the town in the movie of the same
name (as Lawrence, that is)
And, doing my bit for the side, I added a cite for Gravity's Rainbow
in the article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Tunbridge_Wells#World_views_of_the_town



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