On 27 Nov 2013, at 04:13, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Nov 27, 2013, at 3:42 pm, John <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I get that it's a Tetris cake, but is there any specific meaning to that >> fact that I'm missing? > > Nope, just a Tetris cake :)
Nothing is ever 'just' something. The cake is a 3-dimensional simulacrum of something which only exists as an idea, embodied in 2 dimensions (if the virtual domain can be said to be dimensional). The contradiction is that the signifier is somehow more real than the signified, so that the inherent paradox of the sugary comestible becomes itself a double signifier, equally of meta-meaning in late postmodernism, and of the love you have for your wife, which embodies the courtly ideal. Tetris, of course, is a game of joining and of construction, which relies on the player being able to respond to randomness and from it construct meaning despite the difficulties. It is a kind of bricolage, making do with what life has dealt you, to construct as best you can what is, essentially, an idea. This quite unequivocally symbolises marriage, and by baking a Tetris cake rather than say a Battenberg, you have particularised the mathematical generic metanarrative, moving from the signifying domain to the realm of the signifier. It's too obvious for me to point out that the photograph is a 3rd-order signifier, and this email is one step beyond. Now, if you'd baked a cigar cake, well, that would have been just a cigar. Anyway, whatever else you do, don't leave the cake out in the rain. Bobrillard -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
