Michele Pasin / Quotes

Language does not take place in the brain

Note that language does not take place in the brain but rather in the social dynamics. Languaging is a way of being together in a collective, it is a way of co-ontogenically drifting. [Without the brain there is no language, but language does not exist in the brain]

Saved 29 June 2014 / www.oikos.org ↗

#languaging #social-dynamics #language #place

Bacon distinguishing two modes of imposition: formal and tacit

Bacon intends to solve the resulting difficulties (which every causal theory of meaning based on the concepts of ‘reference setting’ and ‘reference borrowing’…

Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan) #language #words #imposition #place

A circle without circumference

...the standpoint of place or topos (basho). This involves the attempts to articulate levels of differentiation and place them in more and more inclusive…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #topos #Nishida #place #attempt

Digital humanities as a gentrifying small town

To many, the dig­i­tal human­i­ties feels like a small town that has recently been rated as a great place to raise a fam­ily. It is now inun­dated by…

The Digital Humanities Situation | The Transducer #group #events #town #place #resources

Judges Walk at sunset

Reputedly, these are all that remain of a once-fashionable eighteenth-century mall marking the northern boundary of the village. Beneath the trees, to your…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #place #nature #history

L'Italia è più bella lontano dal lavoro

L’Italia è tanto più bella quanto più ci si sposta da dove c’è lavoro. Nella gran parte del Paese si compra ancora bene, si vive bene, non ci si allontana…

Adesso basta (Simone Perotti) #Italy #place #work #communication

Le autostrade cancellano il senso dei luoghi

“Ma le autostrade sono il nulla” ha detto lui. “Cancellano qualunque significato dei posti che attraversano.”

Durante (Andrea De Carlo) #place #meaning