File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9709, message 40


From: Saicho-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 12:54:11 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: PLC:Canetti's Lion


On my suggesting that the symbol can be the agent Dennis Says:

"This seems rather silly to me.  The sign bespeaks intent.  It is an agent 
that produces the Uzi.  An Uzi in a glass display case is not an 
immediate threat, an Uzi in the hand is.  We are not chickens and can 
distinguish, in most cases, the real Uzi as a sign of threatening 
*intent* from a picture that does not signify a threat."

As silly as it might sound I would ask which has more immediate power -- the
gun, which we can *know* ,or the intent, which we cannot. It is the power of
the symbol, object, projection, word, act, event Etc. that establishes the
authority. 

Saicho


   

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