April 28th 2019A Story by anandboseIt's a journal.Morning mushroomed
with a canopy of colors"little hymns made divine music"all is beautiful with me.
I thank God Jehovah Jesus for his abundant blessings. It is wonderful to think of how words acquire
new cultural meanings with spread of the internet and globalization. A good
example of that will be viral, selfie and web. I am
pondering on the art of writing. What could it be? Writing is primarily a
narrative. In olden days dissemination was oral. Then there started the writing
of texts. There are two types of writing. They are readable writing and interpretative
writing. Readable
writing can also be called primary writing. It can be factual or literary.
Readable writing is found in discourses like Philosophy, Math and Sciences are
examples. Readable writing being literary can be a good story either in speech or
in writing. Novels, Poetry, Drama, Films all belong to this genre. Interpretative
writing can be cultural, literary and philosophical. Let me use an example. Let
me take the thoughts of structural and post-structural Philosophers. Let me use
an example to understand interpretative reading. Saussure is a famous
structural Philosopher who introduced the Sign in Language. All language is made up of Signs. A sign is
made up of the signifier and the Signified.
A signifier is a visual tangible thing. A signified is an idea. For example
if I say dove is peace, dove is the signifier and peace the signified. Then
Roland Barthes who used the structuralist Sign to analyze fashions and culture.
Philosophically speaking the sign was put into deconstruction by the philosopher
Derrida. Deconstruction examines how signs privilege and marginalize people in
texts. From Derrida I have developed a new idea of Philosophy called Binary
Fusion. Binary Fusion is a text that does not marginalize or privilege anyone. © 2019 anandbose |
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Added on April 28, 2019 Last Updated on April 28, 2019 Tags: Journal, memoir, autobiography philosophy, literature AuthoranandbosePathnamtitta , Kurianoor, IndiaAboutThere's a joke about me that when I was baptized I pissed on the cassock of the priest and my tryst with iconoclasm being then I am a Hellenic Philistine, an Existential Nihilist, a staunch Epicurea.. more..Writing
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