On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Your philosophical treatise of the subject matter goes beyond cake and eating:) -- 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.
