Visual semiotics essay

[drwex]

unseelie linked to this visual essay:
http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/powerpose/index.html

It's a really nice piece in my opinion because it manages to convey some of the key concepts of semiotics and postmodern analysis through a visual exploration, while stripping out or clearly explaining the dense jargon that renders much of postmodern analysis impenetrable to the average (even average intelligent) reader. I'm a big fan of clear understandable explanations and having myself waded through some of the original dense stuff to get to some of the best pomo ideas, I feel frustrated that people continue to work in this field as if nobody but other academic wankers needed to understand what they're writing.

Comments

[louiseroho.livejournal.com]

This is a really, really cool site.
I could get lost in semiotics.

I was trying to explain how the name of the thing is not the thing just last week.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

It's clearly written, sure, but it didn't do much for me because I disagreed with the opening premises: that the male images were "odd or laughable" and the female "charming and attractive". I found both sets of silly poses equally silly, and the two women / two men poses equally charming. <shrug>

[hlmt.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was a lot of fun. Thanks for the link.