On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 18:53 +1100, Chris Jones wrote:
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> I chased down Gunther Kress
A review of Kress's latest book.
http://seminar.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=1
Interesting, if I can believe this review, since Gunther is going over
the same ground today as that which I was taught as one of his students
20 or more odd years ago and which he inherited from Halliday.
Again, Gunther understands genre as a social relation which following
Charles Sanders Peirce forms an index and social semiotic system, which
is to say the image itself does not index and form a semiotic system. It
is the social relation which does and this operates as a
socio-linguistic system or a discursive formation.
I am beginning to suspect Mark is correct in his appraisal of the MFA
system in the USA, since it is this MFA social formation that confuses
its own discursive system with the art photograph it claims to study and
as such projects the MFA discursive formation onto the surface of the
photographic print and confuses this with the photographic print itself.
I say this because over recent years I have heard and read the claim,
from the USA, that photographic images as images form a semiotic system.
The reference to Peirce is fairly obvious. It is also interesting that
at this point Deleuze drops Peircean semiotics in his writing on Cinema
and turns to the Nietzchean idea of powers of the false. Also repeating
a refusal of images to form an index.
Anyways, if other interested, best chris j
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