Stories 1 - 8 for Alien (signifier)

... about distinguishing the thing signified from the signifier, not about confusing them, as with these “symbols”. If we were to be visited by aliens, ...

There's a substantial difference between what you're calling a “symbol”—the intellectual tools of mathematics, for example—and what he's calling one. ...

It makes the error of mistaking the signifier for the signified at two levels: first, mistaking the original signifier, then mistaking signifiers as a ...

... an Ethiopian economist, had taken to pointing out all the new fence posts, standing naked and knobby like freshly cut saplings — mundane signifiers, ...

I am an EE Specialising in Radio engineering, so you are preaching to the choir about symbols. I couldn't live without them. I do however get a bit jaded ...

I'm all for practical results. I wasn't writing to that end per se, but I'm not opposed to them. Actually, Kenneth Burke, the writer I cite, ...