From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #3965 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, April 13 2020 Volume 14 : Number 3965 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Technology Trusted by Professionals Worldwide, But 100x Smaller ["Kills D] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:10:52 -0400 From: "Kills Deadly Bacteria" Subject: Technology Trusted by Professionals Worldwide, But 100x Smaller Technology Trusted by Professionals Worldwide, But 100x Smaller http://gemscleaner.icu/pnC_tUQ46cfoEBZngwNP7aAyMdkh9kEzIqcKn35SDK8i5b6f http://gemscleaner.icu/-_qZM5EpzspOIKv6c74Sv34JnIqdYZpOikb1tbyZxONPEd0 war France in order to reveal that "objects were organized into meaningful relationships via narratives that expressed collective cultural values." In The Fashion System Barthes showed how this adulteration of signs could easily be translated into words. In this work he explained how in the fashion world any word could be loaded with idealistic bourgeois emphasis. Thus, if popular fashion says that a bblouseb is ideal for a certain situation or ensemble, this idea is immediately naturalized and accepted as truth, even though the actual sign could just as easily be interchangeable with bskirtb, bvestb or any number of combinations. In the end Barthes' Mythologies became absorbed into bourgeois culture, as he found many third parties asking him to comment on a certain cultural phenomenon, being interested in his control over his readership. This turn of events caused him to question the overall utility of demystifying culture for the masses, thinking it might be a fruitless attempt, and drove him deeper in his search for individualistic meaning in art. Structuralism and its limits As Barthes' work with structuralism began to flourish around the time of his debates with Picard, his investigation of structure focused on revealing the importance of language in writing, which he felt was overlooked by old criticism. Barthes' "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" is concerned with examining the correspondence between the structure of a sentence and that of a larger narrative, thus allowing narrative to be viewed along linguistic lines. Barthes split this work into three hierarchical levels: bfunctionsb, bactionsb and bnarrativeb. bFunctionsb are the elementary pieces of a work, such as a single descriptive word that can be used to identify a character. That character would be an bactionb, and consequently one of the elements that make up the narrative. Barthes was able to use these distinctions to evaluate how certain key bfunctionsb work in forming characters. For example, key words like bdarkb, bmysteriousb and boddb, when integrated together, formulate a specific kind of character or bactionb. By breaking down the work into such fundamental distinctions Barthes was able to judge the degree of realism given functions have in forming their actions and consequently with what authenticity a narrative can be said to reflect on reality. Thus, his structuralist theorizing became another exercise in his ongoing attempts to dissect and expose the misleading mechanisms of bourgeois culture. While Barthes found structuralism to be a useful tool and believed that discourse of literature could be formalized, he did not believe it could become a strict scientific endeavour. In the late 1960s, radical movements were taking place in literary criticism. The post-structuralist movement and the deconstructionism of Jacques Derrida were testing the bounds of the structuralist theory that Barthes' work exemplified. Derrida identified the flaw of structuralism as its reliance on a transcendental signifier; a symbol of constant, universal meaning ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #3965 **********************************************