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1030 When the lazy faculty members<\/em> vote to award the degree<\/em> on the basis of this “literary collage”, and after the funds for the college’s endowment<\/em> are released by a nervous, yet protective donor,<\/em> a rumor goes out that the nature of the academic thesis in languages and literature<\/em> has changed.  “Literary collages” are now accepted as original academic work<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1031 Spoken words can be so slippery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, actions speak louder than words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1032 Of course, in order to justify the move, one of those lazy faculty members may be induced to write a defense, in which a semiological structuralist model2c<\/sub> is constructed in order to portray the student’s submission as a literary text2af<\/sub>that emerges from the potential of ‘the meaning of an intellectual accomplishment’1a<\/sub> in the normal context of… well… a positivist intellect that is more compromised than that of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics3a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1033 Here is a picture of the perspective-level of the fundament interscope<\/em> and the content-level of a derivative interscope,<\/em> which is not under the umbrella of Russian Theory<\/em> for this example, because the entire exercise is a scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1034 The semiological structuralist model2c<\/sub> of perspective-level of the fundament interscope<\/em> stands for the literary text2af<\/sub> on the content-level of the derivative interscope<\/em> in regards to a modern intellect3a<\/sub> operating on the potential of ‘positivist meaning’1a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1035 According to Peirce, a sign-vehicle (SV) stands for a sign-object (SO) in regards to a sign-interpretant (SI).  The above diagram expresses what I call “the interventional sign-relation”, as described in Looking at John Deely’s Book (2010) “Semiotic Animal”,<\/em> appearing in Razie Mah’s blog in October, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, the guilty faculty member’s semiological structuralist model2c<\/sub> of the “collage thesis2bf<\/sub>“<\/em> (SVi<\/sub>) stands for literary text as form2af<\/sub><\/em> (SOi<\/sub>) in regards to the academic institution’s positivist intellect3a<\/sub> <\/em>(which is not TMS, for sure) operating on the potential of ‘an acceptable intellectual accomplishment, worthy of an advanced degree’1a<\/sub><\/em> (SIi<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1036 Recall that the semiological structuralist model2c<\/sub><\/em> brings the intelligibility of the literary text2b<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the universality of language2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, a semiological structuralist model2c<\/sub> that that brings the intelligibility of a concatenation of plagiarized texts2b<\/sub> into relation with the universality of the language of the visual arts2a<\/sub><\/em> (SVi<\/sub>) stands for the way that<\/em> {this literary text as a form2af<\/sub> [entangles] the language of meaning as matter2am<\/sub>} (SOi<\/sub>) in the normal context of an obviously compromised academic stance3a<\/sub><\/em> operating on the potential that ‘a literary study may be compared to a visual collage’<\/em>1a<\/sub> (SIi<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1037 Enough of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m sure the reader has a good idea that this academy engages in sophistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can one build a sensible interscope<\/em> on an exercise of sophistry?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, one can try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the general sensible construction<\/em> that anyone with integrity<\/em> would produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1038 I leave it to the reader to produce the sensible construction specific to the scam<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1039 Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am plunging headlong into displaying the derivative interscope,<\/em> which emerges from and situates the fundament interscope<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1040 On the content level, a positivist intellect comparable to that of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, in its 1960s-1980s hey-day3a<\/sub>,<\/em> brings the actuality of the dyad of<\/em> {the fundamentally modeled literary text as form2af<\/sub>[entangles] a discursive and derivative language as matter2am<\/sub>} into the relation with the potential of ‘meaning’1a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, the potential1a<\/sub><\/em> does not refer to subtextuality,<\/em> but to “functionality”, in the broadest sense of the word.  ‘Meaning’ is not “functional” unless it satisfies the formal requirements of its design3a<\/sub> and the intentions of its final causality3a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1041 On the situation level, the normal context of cultural studies concerning the reception of the work3b<\/sub><\/em> brings the actuality of the dyad,<\/em> {cognition as matter2bm<\/sub> [substantiates] social interaction as form2bf<\/sub>}, into relation with the potential1b<\/sub> of ‘a presence’ that situates the matter of language2am<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1042 Returning to the scam, in the next academic year, the department of languages and literature<\/em> receives many applications by students eager to explore the opportunities offered for constructing a thesis based on plagiarized material cut and pasted into a “literary collage”.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1043 The problem arises when this new style of thesis is compared to theses from other academic institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose this problem<\/em> figures in the general perspective-level category-based nested form<\/em> in the above figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps, this is why<\/em> the perspective level is left empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1030 When the lazy faculty members vote to award the degree on the basis of this “literary collage”, and after the funds for the college’s endowment are released by a nervous, yet protective donor, a rumor goes out that the nature of the academic thesis in languages and literature has changed.  “Literary collages” are now accepted as original academic work. 1031 Spoken words can be so slippery. 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