--- In [email protected], Adrian Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > around the 23/11/05 Lucas Gonze mentioned about Re: [videoblogging] > Re: War On Text that: > >Any idea where video is in there, Andreas? > > video as most of us think of it is indexical in the first instance. > An index is a sign where there is a *necessary* existential relation > between the sign and the thing. Which is fancy pragmatic American > philosophy (this comes from C.S. Peirce, famous US philosopher) speak > for the thing the sign stands for had to be there. eg smoke as sign > of fire. > > This is partly basis of my argument in the essay i did on blogs as a > form documentary. > -- > cheers > Adrian Miles > this email is bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private [x] > hypertext.RMIT <URL:http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/admin/briefEmail.html > >
So photographs would similarly be in the set of indexical? -- Enric ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
