I love it when cultural entertainment memes are employed against real fake society — and that just happened at Washington State University when V — not the V War Machine — played an uninvited classroom visit via video.
If we were to have a mascot for this Scientific Aesthetic blog where the Arts and Science converge, it would undoubtedly be the visage of the medically trained essayist, poet philosopher and Harvard professor — and brother of Henry and Alice and son of Henry, Sr. — William James.
We rambunctiously support higher education. We love semiotics. When we received a request over the weekend from the University of Tartu Department of Semiotics — that combined both of our passions — we were delighted to help!
Continue reading → The University of Tartu Department of Semiotics
When I was working on the Broadway production of — “The Will Rogers Follies” — I was contacted by a friend of mine who was teaching at a major East Coast university.
Continue reading → The Lie of the Lie: Faking the Will Rogers Follies
There are very few, if any, graduate theatre training programs where the word is so valued that a Playwright is the Chair of the department.
First the car industry went bankrupt; next on the economic griddle — as argued in the Chronicle of Higher Education — is the rising astronomical cost of a university education that is about to burst a bloody mess upon us all.
Subliminal advertising — using semiotic images to suggest sexuality in magazine and print advertising that could only be read by the subconscious mind — had its heyday in the 1970’s as ice cubes in the shape of breasts appeared in liquor ads and, the most famous example by far, was Farrah Fawcett’s bestselling poster with “Sex” written with the curls of her hair. The “S” starts on her shoulder and your eye can make out an “e” near her chest and a twisted “x” above her left breast and under her armpit. I can guarantee you the young, horny, boys of the mid-70’s like me were never looking at her hair…
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