Roland Barthes

barthes wrote about mythmyth
myth is the visionary literature of the spirit, stories of a symbolic past, neither science nor metaphor. Some myths are etiological, serving as an explanation of some kind. The...
and signsign
Sign vs symbol in semiotics.

Ferdinand de Saussure

\[\text{Sign} = \text{Signifier} + \text{Signified}\]

peirce

\[\text{Sign} = \text{Representamen} + \text{Interpretant} + \text{Ob...
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reading list

  • mythologies
  • the rustle of language