Man as we had once 'known' him has changed ("Man is no longer man enclosed"). Man, in this iteration, functions as a referencial code. Since we no longer 'know' what man was (if we ever really knew) or in what ways he was enclosed, the text sets up, through the use of a semic code, a new and unstable identity. Man is no longer enclosed, but is he open, or somewhat ambiguously not not enclosed? If we rely on antithetical codes, does this slippery positionality complicate the very possibility? "Man is, but is not quite."
[REF] REFERENCE: points at which the text refers to common bodies of knowledge (i.e. cultural codes, broadly speaking)
[HER] HERMENEUTIC: "all the units whose function it is to articulate ni various ways a question, its response, and the variety of chance events which can either formulate the question or delay its answer; or even, constitute and enigma and lead to its solution" (S/Z, 17).
[ANT] ANTITHESIS: Brings out a contrast in meaning.
[DIS] DISCOURSE: Enables the repeated relations with objects, subjects, and statements or enunciations Composed systems of thoughts, ideas, attitudes that constitutes speaking subjects.
[MEME] MEME: Abstraction of complex body of ideas, unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. Catchphrase or concept that spreads rapidly from person to person via the Internet. Similar to a sign.
[SEM] SEMIC: the unit of the signifier, an approximate word that the connotative signifier refers to.
[CINE] CINEMATIC: Pertaining to the modes of visual (re)presentation common in the formal practices of the apparatus of cinema. [QST] QUESTION: An interrogative sentence structure that attempts to provoke and/or commands an answer or whose structure marks knowledge, analysis, synthesis or rhetorical strategies.
Man as we had once 'known' him has changed ("Man is no longer man enclosed"). Man, in this iteration, functions as a referencial code. Since we no longer 'know' what man was (if we ever really knew) or in what ways he was enclosed, the text sets up, through the use of a semic code, a new and unstable identity. Man is no longer enclosed, but is he open, or somewhat ambiguously not not enclosed? If we rely on antithetical codes, does this slippery positionality complicate the very possibility? "Man is, but is not quite."
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