Not Waiving but drafting
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.
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.