Notes on Suzanne Langer and presentational symbolism
"Projection" is the process of drawing logical analogies, for example with geometric projection, as the instance of a perfectly faithful representation which, without the knowledge of its rules, appears to be a misrepresentation.
Language transforms relations into objects.
In the physical space-time world of our experience there are things which do not fit the grammatical scheme of expression.
The senses, but also physics and mathematics, have their own symbolic patterns of expression. "The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish." They are 'media of understanding' that make habitual, unconscious abstractions and are capable of complex, simultaneous 'articulations'. The symbolic character of sense-data is abstractable and combinatory. (see the notion of composition in Massumi) While verbal, linguistic definitions are 'general', visual symbolism for example presents specific objects and things, and we have to 'abstract' from them in order to conceive generality, with the help of words. (see Massumi)
Presentational symbolism starts in the peripheral activity of the nervous system. (Gestalt, see Massumi)
Feelings have forms, and become progressively articulated. For example music is one of these forms of emotional articulation.
Language transforms relations into objects.
In the physical space-time world of our experience there are things which do not fit the grammatical scheme of expression.
The senses, but also physics and mathematics, have their own symbolic patterns of expression. "The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish." They are 'media of understanding' that make habitual, unconscious abstractions and are capable of complex, simultaneous 'articulations'. The symbolic character of sense-data is abstractable and combinatory. (see the notion of composition in Massumi) While verbal, linguistic definitions are 'general', visual symbolism for example presents specific objects and things, and we have to 'abstract' from them in order to conceive generality, with the help of words. (see Massumi)
Presentational symbolism starts in the peripheral activity of the nervous system. (Gestalt, see Massumi)
Feelings have forms, and become progressively articulated. For example music is one of these forms of emotional articulation.
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