Dear Steven, I copied your comment to my blog --
Icon Index Symbol • 19 https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2021/01/10/icon-index-symbol-19/ I had intended to discuss it further but the distractions and disruptions of this Already Very Old New Year have not left my faculties intact, plus yesterday was grocery/pharmacy shopping day, which under siege conditions takes all morning and leaves me exhausted the rest of the day. So I hope I can get back to it eventually ... Regards, Jon On 1/8/2021 2:16 PM, Skaggs,Steven wrote:
Jon and all, As far as visual semiotics is concerned, it is helpful to think of a “terrain” or map of a semantic mode territory in which of icon-index-symbol form the points of the triangular map, or gamut. Visual entities (and we can extend this beyond that sense modality but that is what I do most of my work in) can be plotted on this gamut. For instance, an extremely legible typographic word would be in the upper right corner, while an illegible scribble would appear down near the bottom. But expressive calligraphy, or perhaps a graffiti tag, might well occupy somewhere in between. The late works of Paul Klee would mostly be placed in the center. A passport photograph the upper left corner, etc… More on this in my book FireSigns<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/firesigns> (shameless plug!). SxS
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