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Thursday, August 8, 2024

Annals of Accidental Branding

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:03 pm

Columnist Rex Huppke in USA Today  this morning —

". . . presidential nominee Donald Trump . . .
seems otherwise preoccupied with posting
unhinged rants on social media . . . ."

Huppke's self-description —

Related reading . . .

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Day of the Locus:  Also Sprach Zartaloudis

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:42 pm

From Thanos Zartaloudis
“The Experience of Migration:  From Metaphor to Metamorphosis,”
On Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 10 (2020) —

"To paraphrase Roland Barthes, the ancient soothsayer
'
speaks the locus of meaning but does not name it,'
while the modern metaphoric-apotropaic subject
'names it but does
not speak of its locus.' 12

12 Roland Barthes, “The Structuralist Activity,” in:
Critical Essays, transl. by Richard Howard
(
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1972),
213–220, here: 219."

A related locus:

"For Times Square Church," Steven H. Cullinane, Log24 , Feb. 6, 2018.

Purely Coincidental  Spatial Studies

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:47 am

See also the previous post.

Update of 1 (and 1:35) PM EDT the same day —

Some Spatial Studies vocabulary:  http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Dyadic.

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Logos vs. Logos

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:34 pm

A related logo

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