Friday, 29 October 2010

Intertextuality

It was quite interesting lecture at some points, when we were talking about things repeating such as quotes in different movies aimed for certain audience and has no meaning to other people as they simply wont be able to interpret that code.

It was kinda weird to hear that we can't do anything original and some part of me probably disagrees as there always someone making something original, but another side of does agree with what Ivan was saying...
In our todays life we spend many hours talking to friends, browsing web, watching tv and so on. We are constantly under "attack" from outside with new information that may not be original and may influence us to create something that was already done, but perhaps to make it better?

All this makes me think that all we do right now is just constantly repeating each other. In example books keep their information for decades on its sheets, we read them and suck in the information, as Russians say- "by reading a book you copy authors mind" which I agree with.I'm not talking about books with pretty stories etc as they have no meaning apart from pretty stories, I am talking about educational aimed books, as they are passed from decade to decade between different generations of people to teach us and no matter if the books were renewed or not they still keep same information or "code" in them.


Although at some point Ivan said that we cant control how viewers receive things, it's quite interesting statement. As I mentioned in last post about semiotics- each person may interpret same thing different from the others.

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