On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Attila Boros <[email protected]> wrote: > 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:)
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