Something was Lost: The Sign System in Late Capitalist Media

I “Things are going to slide… slide in all directions; the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and has overturned the order of the soul… when they said repent, I wonder what they meant” –Leonard Cohen.                 One could have imagined Cohen reading Jean Beaudrillard while writing the lyrics to “The Future” (quoted…

A Mythological Impasse: A Deconstructive Reading of Hyperreality’s Semiotic Spectacle

Umberto Eco once said that he was concerned with everything that dealt with semiotics. This is another way of saying he was concerned with the world since the world, following Derrida, is nothing but a text meant to be deciphered; a system of signs conveying messages, signifiers denoting signified, meanings obscured in other meanings, referents…