Electric Didact
In which we ask whether what we mean is actually what we mean, and then discuss briefly why Donald Trump doesn’t have control over the meaning of his anti-Semitic tweets.
The first of a multi-part series of videos looking into how language and meaning function.
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/electricdidact
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/electricdidact
Blog/Author Site: https://electricdidact.wordpress.com/
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Works Cited:
William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley, “The Intentional Fallacy,” 1946
Michael Wreen, “Beardsley’s Aesthetics,” 2014, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beardsley-aesthetics/)
MedievalPOC (http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/120700787603/paul-van-somer-i-queen-anne-of-denmark-denmark)
Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author (1968)
SEE ALSO:
Reginald Shepherd, “On the Intentional Fallacy,” March 19, 2008, Poetry Foundation (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/03/on-the-intentional-fallacy/)
Alana Horowitz Satlin, “Trump Claims Star of David Picture Isn’t Anti-Semitic,” Huffington Post, July 5, 2016 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-star-of-david_us_577a6355e4b04164641065e9)
Michelle Ye Hee Lee, “Everything you wanted to know about Trump and the six-pointed star,” Washington Post, July 6, 2016 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/07/06/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-trump-and-the-six-pointed-star/)
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Assets:
Donald Trump (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/renee-fisher/donald-trump-the-man-the-_b_9235214.html)
MedievalPOC (http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/120700787603/paul-van-somer-i-queen-anne-of-denmark-denmark)
Corrupt Hillary poster: (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/trump-uses-star-of-david-to-call-clinton-corrupt.html) .