Scott McCloud / Ludwig WittgensteinThe Treachery of Images /and Language Games

Brett OppegaardCreative Media and Digital Culture 375

Language, Texts and TechnologySpring 2011

This is not a pipe. These are individual symbols strung together. If you understand English, you probably can make some sort of meaning out of them ....

What does McCloud mean when he writes that comics work via “amplification by simplification”?

How does McCloud describe our “constant awareness of self” as functioning?

What is the difference between the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses? How do those connect?

This is not a pipe. These are individual symbols strung together. If you understand English, you probably can make some sort of meaning out of them ....

What is the difference between “received” information and “perceived” information?

Is visual literacy the universal communication panacea of the 21st century?

This is not a pipe. These are individual symbols strung together. If you understand English, you probably can make some sort of meaning out of them ....

Wittgenstein

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Tweet a one-sentence description of this classroom.

Tweet a one-word description of this classroom.

Why do we name things? (Aphorism 27)

How and why does the expression “Slab!” morph into different forms due to context? (Aphorism 19-20)

Tell us how a clarinet sounds. (Aphorism 78)