/lit/ - Literature

>>10726639
Before post-modernism, there used to be a signifier and signified: the former pointed toward the later.

But post-modernism is characterized by a blurring of that simple linguistic tie. The signifier does not points toward a signified anymore, but toward another signifier - which would be a sign in the sens of Barthes (see Mythologies, they are pretty fun to read).

For example, when you see a man wearing a perfecto jacket, you are not seeing a biker anymore, but a man wearing a metonymy of biker culture, which is a stand-in for a rebellious attitude.

What used to be a sign denoting a belonging is now a commodity that denotes a sign. The sign has become a meta-sign, since it refers to another sign. It does not refer to reality anymore, and reality has now become, to quote Baudrillard, "hyperreality."

>>10633237
Just finished Thucydides' History Book V.
The Athenians are such assholes, can't wait for them to get BTFO in Sicily.