On Broken Glass: For a Semiotics of Anti-Materiality
Massimo Leone
Abstract Scholars have mostly focused on “positive materiality,” studying the meaning of materials and techniques in production artifacts. Matter, however, means not only when it is shaped into materiality but also destroyed. The essay that follows meant to represent a first tentative enquiry anti-materiality. study destroyed artifacts aims at pointing out matter always materiality. It conserves shadow meaning, independently from how profoundly its earlier form was disintegrated. crepuscular significance damaged has escaped attention scholars. attempts an initial exploration it, proposing condensed cultural history broken glass. therefore seeks combine, same exposition, chronological structural overview glass, Greco-Roman antiquity until early modernity.
Chinese semiotic studies