Chaosophy - autonomous learning

meaning into all signifying regimes that tend to escape it. (It will
invent "relational significations" for science or, for the cinema, the
unities of "iconomatic" significations, etc.) In putting the signifier
and the signifying chains in the forefront, it substantiates the idea
of keeping the contents at a secondary level. But, in fact, it secretly
transfers the normalizing power of language onto the signifier.
Hence, in masking the possible creativity of asignifying semiotic
machines, structuralism plays into an order tied down to dominant
significations.
When it is exploited by capitalist and bureaucratic socialist
powers to mold the collective imaginary, cinema topples over to the
side of meaning. Yet, its own effectiveness continues to depend on
its presignifying symbolic components as well as its asignifying ones:
linkages, internal movements of visual images, colors, sounds,
rhythms, gestures, speech, etc. But unlike the speech and writing
that, for hundreds, indeed, thousands of years, has remained pretty
much the same as a means of expression, cinema has, in a few
decades, never ceased to enrich its technique. In this way, to catch
up with these effects, the powers-that-be have tried to increase the
control they exercise upon it. The more it enlarges its scale of
aesthetic intensities, the more the systems of control and censure
have tried to subjugate it to signifying semiologies.
As an asignifying semiotic, how does cinema go beyond the
structure of signifying semiologies Christian Metz explains it better
than I can; he shows that cinema is not a specialized language and
that its matter of content3 is undefined: "the breadth of its semantic
fabric is a consequence of two distinct causes whose effects are
cumulative. On the one hand, cinema encompasses a code-language,
in the talkies-whose presence itself would be enough to
authorize semantic information of the most varied type. Second,
other elements of the filmic text, for example, images, are themselves
languages whose matter of content has no precise boundaries."4 Its
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