Ceci n'est pas un pipe

From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2000 - 06:26:02 MDT

D.J. - Ceci n'est pas un pipe.

B.L. - Oh mon dieu! Quelle horreur! C'est vraiment tres choquant, ceci mot
d'argot.

D.J. - It's not slang, just a.... surreal way of saying the symbol is not
the object.

It is even more subtle. Magritte painted
Ceci nšest pas un pipe
http://www.magritte.com/3_detail.cfm?id=332
and Ceci nšest pas un pomme
http://www.magritte.com/3_detail.cfm?id=65
but also (!) Ceci est un morceau de fromage
http://www.magritte.com/3_detail.cfm?id=64

As Michel Foucault pointed out in his
This is Not a Pipe (Un. California Press, 1982)
Magritte was just exploring the verbal-visual
(or, I suppose, the logical-visual) relationships.

http://www.magritte.com/

D.J. - so your changing your name doesn't change you directly.

But ancient latins used to say: nomen omen!

Cheers

              

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