elizabeth byrne Macherey

When reading Macherey’s essay, A Theory of Literary Production, I though of the saying a picture is worth a thousand words. Whether it is a portrait or a landscape pictures are full of expression and emotion where one can interpret the photo on their own. Along with Starfish, I am in the same Russian Film class and watched an extremely old movie called, The Battleship Potemkin. The movie was very boring as it was silent and black and white. I though the movie was boring not only because it is black and white and silent, but also because our society has movies that are far more advance that the movie from the early 1900’s. Going back to our last discussion on how language has changed and we don’t use “boring” or “old” saying and have moved on to such sayings as “sick” and “bling”. This old movie was an break through movie is a good example of how our world has advance and everyday technology and language continue to expand.
Through this essay I found some parts hard to understand and some concepts hard to fully grasp, but in my experience I have found that silence or speaking through writing is be a hard way to communicate. Through text messages and e-emails one can not now the tone of voice or the emotion that the other is feeling. Silence in person is easier as one can smile, laugh, sigh, yawn, cry etc. to show feelings. In writing it leaves room for interpretation, question, and critique.