A language? The way we communicate? No. Objects and consumable goods are potential contextualized signifiers, unstable, fluid, ambiguous, and metaphorical. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, August 21, 2012 4:04:23 AM Subject: "...Things, commodities, objects, consumable goods are not only possessions but a kind of language. They are, like it or not, the way we communicate with each other, with ourselves, and with the world." "...Things, commodities, objects, consumable goods are not only possessions but a kind of language. They are, like it or not, the way we communicate with each other, with ourselves, and with the world." http://www.tnr.com/articles/books-and-arts/blog/article/books-and-arts/80908/ %20http%3A/www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2005/02/24/eastwood/www.indiana.e du?page=88K %3Bahr%2Fdarnton=
