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… a blog on communication

soul salvation (notebook)

Sorry, folks.

I have been away for a while, but hopefully I will be able to make some more substantial posts to the blog during the weekend. In the meantime, please take a good look at this picture.

Denotations could be describes as; man, sitting man, white pants, beer on table, table, motion blur, etcetera. Connotations could be described with these words; loneliness or solitude.

And here comes the question for you to elaborate on: if you were to describe a closure of this scene, what would it be?  

 Soul Salvation

Please note how a title will lead your reading of a visual like this photograph. I call the picture Soul Salvation. The title could also have been Waiting For His Girl Friend, and all of a sudden there is more hope and positive anticipation connoted in the picture. 

In other words, connotations in visuals are influenced by text context. Here the title.

And of course, the opposite will be true as well: the content of a sentence is influences by visual context.

Not such a bad picture, eh? :-) Wonder how it is done?

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February 7, 2008 Posted by knut skjærven | notebook | , , , | No Comments

other than that of their facticity (pitstop)

“What is phenomenology? It may seem strange that this question has still to be asked half a century after the first works of Husserl. The fact remains that it has by no means been answered. Phenomenology is the study of essences; and according to it, all problems amount to finding definitions of essences: the essence of perception, or the essence of consciousness, for example. But phenomenology is also a philosophy which puts essences back into existence, and does not expect to arrive at an understanding of man and the world from any starting point other than that of their “facticity”.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty: ”Phenomenology of Perception”, page vii. Routledge & Kegan Paul. New York 1970, (Translated from the French by Colin Smith). Library Thing.

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February 7, 2008 Posted by knut skjærven | pitstop | , , | No Comments