Housekeeping

First off, I think we should follow Jeremy's lead in posting.

Second off, I'm pasting the e-mail I sent because it won't Tweet:

I'm sorry we haven't solidified how to do responses on-line yet, but it seems to have centered on the blogspot (consensus?). We met on Monday and tried to work through Saussure and Peirece. It was lively. We attempted to use a constant (a banana: of which we had one: a bit brown and useful) to illustrate the particulars of and differences between the fundamental Saussurian and Peircian models models of signification. I think we came to a pretty good conclusion of understanding them both, distinguishing between them, and deciding how access and utilize them as we proceed. We also decided that it was a good idea to read a couple of selections (that Sarah selected and posted) from Barthes's Mythologies as well as his "Myth Today" to get experience of what semiotic deconstruction looks like. So for next week we are reading more of Chandler, "Myth Today" by Barthes from Mythologies and a couple of essays Sarah selected form the same book and sent out.

I feel that as we investigate the historical foundations of semiotics, we are able to get adequately ahead of ourselves to prepare for the next level of readings.

So far so good.

I think responses to this e-mail should be in the blog. I Think this class will require a lot of monitoring my everyone. I don't think this will be a problem once we centralize our comments.