-Media and layers of remediation or reproduction. Signifying materiality
is not a bidimensional perspective, of surface depth logic, or sender
receiver flow etc. We want to visualize the sedimented archaeology of
semic artefacts as a binary logic of communication, instead of a
palimpsest of remediated instances of material signs. What is important
is this series of endless material reproduction where the code is
perennially buried in successive waves of remediation. What becomes the
full focus of sign production is this relay from the top to the bottom
of the stairs of the ever mutating message. That is, the sign of the
process of making the sign, and so on.
-The guarantee of meaning is the positing of the metaphysical idea of
speaking the same language. But literally we don't speak the same
language, no matter how it sounds like it. This is the utopian fantasy
of an imagined unitary community, a monological society. (Cf Deleuze et
Guattari in their notion of stylistic as before the abstract langue. The becoming minor of E. E. Cummings.) The notion of a systemic langue, the politics of nationalism and that
of organic meaning, all unitary logics, intersect and rehearse each
other as mutually reinforcing and corroborating ideologies. This is the
fantastic motion of desire invoking the forever retrievable and
immutable object of the idealist plane. Grice's maxims and the utopia of
cooperative communication as the simulation of an ideal sociality of
language.
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