After reading Derrida's essay I also thought about the the fact that there are no longer innocent texts and that everything goes back to a "chain of signifiers". However, I linked back to the quote earlier this semester about how we relate thing back to prior knowledge, history, and/ or experience. I think that when every person see' s an image it has a slightly different meaning due to the importance that it holds with the individual.
I also agree with "WouldntULike2Know" about how people say xerox instead of copy. I think it is similar to how Dr. Rog was talking about the word "bling" and how words are used and then picked up as natural or "normal" to say. Because of the culture and society that we live in we know things because of the knowledge that we have.
We can't escape the signs or signifies because as Nichole talks about we wouldn't know which bathroom was for men or women. Images are everywhere and we interpret them all differently but just as Habermas has talked about how media and culture are synonymous. One is constantly influencing another which also links to how youtube and multi-million dollar movies are continuously working off one another.
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a good point
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