RHETOR 151 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Early Modern Europe, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Optical Phenomena
16 Apr 2017
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Seeing across cultures in the early modern worl. In 1938, ludwig wittgenstein put some marks on a blackboard, trying to picture a mark signifying nothing, a sign without correspondence to something, written scratch. Two meanings proposed - could not be differentiated from one. The philosopher had attempted to picture an optical phenomenon another in which a random but iterated marking was dissociated from some shared reference based on visual perception. In early modern euproean image-world, no signifier was innocent signifier and signified, where the utterance is subject to substitution (arbus, arbre etc. ) where the sign inheres in the thing itself. Foucault proposed a more complex organization before the 17th century. For foucault, the act of marking - the stigma or signature of things. Saussure proposed that there is a binary relationship between arbitrary. Problem of the status of the visual in early modern europe.
