Our futurist zeitgeist may originate in capitalist economics, but its logic also creates a context for cultural signification. |
For Saussure the value of words is not intrinsic, nor a function of signification, but is a property of the system. |
Signs are only meaningful within the system of signification in which they are produced, and not as discrete units. |
We can recognize a logic of the unconscious only through its representation in the symbolic order, through the effect of signification. |
That hereby is signified that they who imbue others with falses shall be imbued with falses from hell, appears from the signification of a sword. |
Here, the white ribbon is read as a robe that mediates structure and decoration and opens the building to other forms of signification. |