diff --git a/pages/las.quotes.md b/pages/las.quotes.md index fcd32aa..d35fc28 100644 --- a/pages/las.quotes.md +++ b/pages/las.quotes.md @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Visually, films are surfaces, but to the ear they are spatial. We are merged in #intro #dimension -Written lines relate\ their symbols to their meanings point by point (they “conceive” the facts they mean), while surfaces relate their symbols to their meanings by two-dimensional contexts (they “imagine” the facts they mean—if they truly mean facts and are not empty symbols). +Written lines relate their symbols to their meanings point by point (they “conceive” the facts they mean), while surfaces relate their symbols to their meanings by two-dimensional contexts (they “imagine” the facts they mean—if they truly mean facts and are not empty symbols). ----- #intro #fiction #concept @@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ The sciences, and other articulations of linear thought such as poetry, literatu #image The red traffic light means “Stop!” and the obnoxious green of peas means “Buy me!” This explosion of colors means something. -#intro #surface #image +----- + +#intro #surface #image #temporality The fact that humankind is being programmed by surfaces (images) should not be considered a revolutionary piece of news. On the contrary, it apparently signifies a return to a primitive origin. Before the invention of writing, images were a decisive means of communication. Because most codes are ephemeral, such as the spoken word, gestures, and song, we are dependent on images to decipher the meaning that man has given both his deeds and his suffering from the time of Lascaux to the time of Mesopotamian tiles. -------------