COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Semiotics

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 2003
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

Things are the way that they are because we made them that way, they spring from our initiative. Individuals make things, come up with things, and bring them into existence. Second way is that the things are the way that they are, mean the things that they mean because of some larger system, so large that it is dif cult for us to comprehend, out of our individual control. Large systems are some divine entity is responsible for why things are the way they are and the way the world is playing out. Another is a psychoanalytical explanation, certain kinds of behaviors baked into the brain which determines our actions. For freud, buried deep in our subconscious that dictate our acts. The third, is a technological explanation, world dominated by algorithms and that determines it for us, totally reliant upon them. Underneath those questions are these big ones (slide 1)