SCHEMATIZING (47)
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November 19, 2024
One in a series of posts via which HILOBROW’S Josh Glenn will attempt to depict the intellectual and emotional highs and lows of developing a semiotic schema.
I published this image last month, in the 1929 installment of the series RADIUM AGE ART… and then kept brooding over it.
Semiotics is about surfacing and dimensionalizing the unseen structures of meaning that help shape and guide perception and — to the extent that our actions are guided by our perceptions — behavior “up here” (to use a spatial metaphor) in everyday lived reality. Our schemas visualize the workings of the meaning-structures “down there” — but they don’t visualize the manner in which the two realms intersect. Our schemas are merely a peephole into another dimension, rather than an AR-type vision of that dimension superimposed upon what we can see with our naked eyes. This Kandinsky painting helps me think about that.
MORE FURSHLUGGINER THEORIES BY JOSH GLENN: SCHEMATIZING | IN CAHOOTS | JOSH’S MIDJOURNEY | POPSZTÁR SAMIZDAT | VIRUS VIGILANTE | TAKING THE MICKEY | WE ARE IRON MAN | AND WE LIVED BENEATH THE WAVES | IS IT A CHAMBER POT? | I’D LIKE TO FORCE THE WORLD TO SING | THE ARGONAUT FOLLY | THE PERFECT FLANEUR | THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JANUARY | THE REAL THING | THE YHWH VIRUS | THE SWEETEST HANGOVER | THE ORIGINAL STOOGE | BACK TO UTOPIA | FAKE AUTHENTICITY | CAMP, KITSCH & CHEESE | THE UNCLE HYPOTHESIS | MEET THE SEMIONAUTS | THE ABDUCTIVE METHOD | ORIGIN OF THE POGO | THE BLACK IRON PRISON | BLUE KRISHMA | BIG MAL LIVES | SCHMOOZITSU | YOU DOWN WITH VCP? | CALVIN PEEING MEME | DANIEL CLOWES: AGAINST GROOVY | DEBATING IN A VACUUM | PLUPERFECT PDA | SHOCKING BLOCKING.