Nemo 9/6

During class we discussed how we should be looking at the gaps - or what is not being said. In every single conversation, book, movie, etc. something goes unsaid. In class we were told to look/listen more closely at texts/during conversations at what the person is not saying. In this quote Macherey perfectly discusses the idea of gaps; ""There remains the possibility of saying something else" (15). To me this quote means that anytime something is being said something is not being said. When we were children we were always taught to read between the lines of a conversation or to look closer when we are watching a movie. I never really paid any attention to that until I was older and now that we are discussing the same concepts in class it is interesting to see that we are always encouraged to go beyond what is being taught. Another quote by Macherey that we talked about during class was "in order to say anything, there are other things which must not be said" (17). This applies to the CMC major because in class we are told everyday to look for things that the advertisements or commercials we look at are trying to tell the consumer. So it is important to make sure we open our minds and allow ourselves to see what is in the gaps. At least that was my impression of this discussion and these quotes.