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The images and sounds that issue from the box have a mmeaning2 for
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their receiver. They form a code, (let "code" be a system of symbols). The
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receiver can decodify the images and sounds and thus read a message, The Ti
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code is a new one. Western civilisation disposes basically of two types of
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codes: surface ones and linear ones. (Three-dimensional codes like sculp-
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ture and dance will not be considered.) Surface codes consist of images
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which depict their meaninge. (F.1. paintings and maps.) Linear codes con-
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sist of point-like elements forming a line, and they scan their meaning,
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(F.1, spoken language, alphabets and arithmetics.) Surface codes are read
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through "imagination", linear ones through conceptualisation". TV, (and
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film), has a code in which surfaces follow a linear structure. They can be
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read two ways. Like surfaces, (through "imagination"), and 11ke lines in
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which the point-like elements are surfaces, (through conceptualisation of
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images" and imagination of concepts"). The fórst way of reading is the on
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ly one permitted by the present use of TV, and 18, in a sense, a return to
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analphabetism. (See my article "Iine and Surface", in MAIN CURRENTS Jan.73)
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