Thursday, January 28, 2010
Homework #2
Good class. Now, for this week's comments, go to Miami Bourbaki. Pantoja's work is about movies, and the idea of a wordless/poster. Don't forget to become a friend.
Go ahead!
Signs for thought
The relation to spoken language and and writing is not simple. Many things said in speech cannot be represented in writing, and vice-versa. So, what is the equivalent of an ironic inflection? A whisper? A seductive tone of voice? Writing has many properties derived from its graphic nature. What is the spoken equivalent of a hyphen? A decorative initial? A sans serif face? Or the divisions of text into two columns of a page?
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