April 9, 2012
Language Soup: What Does the Arrangement of Alphabits have to do with Terministic Screens?
Genre, frame, and screen are all different words that describe the same basic concept, in my opinion. Classification, the division of the whole to produce distinct parts. Genre deals with classification by dividing a work on its structure, its content, its style, or its effect. Frame deals with classification by dividing a work on its scope, what is included or excluded of the whole. Finally, the terministic screen deals with dividing the language through its use and affiliation. All of these terms apply to the fracturing of the whole into manageable pieces for our minds to understand. "This 'idealization' ends on two weighty words. One, 'synecdoche,' is used in the sense of 'part of the whole.' The other, 'tautology,' refers to the fact that, insofar as an entire structure is infused by a single generating principle, this principle will be tautologically or repetitively implicit in all parts" (Burke 55). In a sense; genre, frame, and screen ironically share the principle of a divisive function. However, this is true of all words, which divide a concept from the whole and relate it to other similar divided concepts. Each individual will have their own interpretation and symbolic set with which they understand the world; this can be seen as an aspect of our own divided nature. We, as a part of the whole, can only perceive and understand a part of the whole, and through our constant recombination of the parts we can percieve, we come to predict what could possibly be the whole. The terms of genre, frame, and screen exist because of our existence as pieces, but thanks to the uniting principle of atomic composition we may one day be able to comprehend the entirety of our universal scope. We are the children of the stars swimming through a sea of frames and screens.
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