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hii there
I’m still confuse bout Barthes connotation procedure
what about photojournalism?
it can’t have the 6 of them rite?
I’m analyzing 3 photos bout women in Prostitution
can I put the myth in one?
thx before.
ur answer will be very helpful to me
Dear Ann
Thanks for your comment.
Please let me have a copy of one of the images that you deal with and I will try to comment on the picture and try to answer your questions.
It would be helpful if you have the copyright to the photograph in question and would give me permission to post it on barebonescommunication. If not so, please post it on the internet on your own website or blog so that I can have a look at it and link to the image in question.
I am only glad if I can be of any help. Tell me; where in the world are you? and what are the specific project that you are working on? This, just out of curiousity.
Best regards
Knut
hi again,
thx for your reply
I’m doing my final project bout semiotic
I choose some images in a book called Sex For Sale
n here’s the link to the picture
http://www.yuyungabdi.com/new/index.php?show=books&id=1
there’s 3 images show a pregnant woman who works in prostitution.
I use Barthes Semio coz I think it can explain the cultural context also (am I right?)
but I find dificulties writing bout the myth-things
coz still confuse about the myth itself
well, I’m not sure if I can give permission to post it anywhere else…
since I’m not the author
thx b4
Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!
Hi Alex
Many thanks for the kind words. I will do my best in keeping up the work.
Best wishes
Knut
Hi Ann
Sorry for the delay in response. I am afraid that your questions have such far reaching perspective, that I am in no position to help you substantially.
My advice would be that you continue studying Barthes, and also get acquainted with literature from people that do interpretations on Barthes’ theories.
Please remember that Barthes is not necessarily right in what he says or imply. It is very much up to yourself to interpret and strengthen you own argument in your project. Do that convincingly, and I would say that you are on a good road to success.
Good luck with it.
Best regards
Knut
Very interesting website, Knut. We share an interest in phenomenology and gestalt psychology. i just discovered your blog, while pursuing issues pertaining to Herbert Spiegelberg. Excellent photographs – and apart from your art, you are a fine teacher.
I’m a physician – have written on phenomenology and medicine for decades, was fortunate to meet my own teacher and now friend and collaborator Oz Wiggens at the New School in New York in the early 1970′s – through Oz I met Maurice Natanson, Ed Casey, etc – and also he opened doors to Spiegelberg, Gurwitsch, Straus and many, many others… Today, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine (PEHM) http://www.peh-med.com is a “pluralogue” – an experiment – I am working nowadays on two other projects – one in global telemedicine (So we at PEHM are a “supporting partner” for “Health Information for all 2015 http://www.HIFA2015.org) and also the globalization of a “Decade of the Mind” 2010-2020. As these move forward, or not…. Well I certainly need a muse for communication. “Barebonescommunication” … Yes!
Best to you, Michael Schwartz
Hi Michael
many thanks for your kind comment. I am impressed about the projects that you are involved in, and not to speak of the people that you have met
.
Concerning Spiegelberg: I am just reading his book “Doing Phenomenology” from 1975 (Martinus Nijhoff). I am sure that you know this well. What strikes me with the phenomenological tradition is that so many scholars have missed the point, that phenomenology is a practical, operative philosophy, and not first and foremost a historical and/or a philological discipline. Spiegelberg takes a fair stand on that in his book “Doing Phenomenology”. I like that, because I think he is absolutely right.
Back to barebones: I has been quite clear to me for many years that phenomenology do not stand in the way of other approached to mundane matter e.g. communication. Husserl would probably have called these other approaches for regional ontologies, and that is just way I try to handle them on this blog. Without getting too boring and academic
. And as you know, each picture holds a thousand words 
.
The good thing is that the blog is picking up momentum. I can leave it now for many weeks and it still has an increasing number or hits. It’s not many so far, but it is getting better
. I am still in the process of laying bare the bones, as you can see/read, but I do not have that far to go before I can work more freely and start adding some real flesh on the bones. I need the part on advertising finished. I like the blog format, which makes it possible for me to go back and make corrections when needed (and it is needed).
Anyway, Michaell, thanks once more for commenting. I am impressed, and I would very much like to read some of your articles. Could you forward more links? Please do it here on the blog so that others can get access to your articles as well.
All the best
Knut
Thanks for comment, Knut,
Terrific the way you combine, in this blog, Ogilvy and Husserl. Yes, THE point is a practical, operative way..
Most of my papers have been in academic journals, so I cannot attach links here – you cannot read them by links from here! For example…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4011377
That’s one reason why I now lead an “open access” journal – http://www.peh-med.com – all of the content there IS available to the public.
Here is one link to half a paper of mine … http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/49601 (First half not available..)
In any case, these days, I am involved in projects. This one was just completed – 10 years — we succeeded in our goal to practically transform the USA care paradigm in “mental health services” towards self-help and “recovery” http://www.irwinfoundation.org/celebration/cr_events.php and earlier see http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/40/15/30. We have achieved some success here – we intend to move on…
New projects now will require COMMUNICATION and PROMOTION of a business model – so I have become your student in barebones.
One project (very much beginning) involves global telemedicine. So….I can Skype you. But there are 1 1/5 million too few health workers in Central Africa (for example) – Millions lack basic care – and they won’t get it locally. All the doctors and nurses are in the developed world . And educating more won’t work – emigration is too much of a ‘draw’ (we have a paper on this which will appear any day in PEHM). So the project – we intend to develop care teams through telemedicine – with doctor/nurse anywhere in the world and local health workers “on the ground” together with patient – both at the other end of a telemedicine hook-up.
Right now, we are in the prototype phase, and we need to “promote” our affordable model to foundations. So we project developers are learning the “bare bones” of communication….
Second involves what has been called (quite nicely, I think), the “Decade of the Mind 2010- 2020″ – a vast intellectual project to transform thinking in medicine, education, neuroscience, culture in general from “brain” to “mind and brain” (1990 – 2000 was called the “Decade of the Brain”). Our plans involve this “going global”. See the article at http://www.peh-med.com/content/3/1/7 . Once again, at this point, the point is taking this idea and making it happen…..
Both of these (which both emerge from the “back-pages” of PEHM) are “not yet here”. Will they “happen”? They will if our teams can figure out how to communicate what we are trying to do….. So, my dear “professor(s)” – we are trying to learn – from you…
Very best to you,
Michael Schwartz