A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection not an invitation for hypnosis.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection not an invitation for hypnosis.
Umberto Eco

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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth it cannot in fact be used to tell at all.
- Umberto Eco
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Omnia mundi creatura
quasi liber et pictura nobis est
in speculum.
- Umberto Eco

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection not an invitation for hypnosis. Umberto Eco

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection not an invitation for hypnosis.
Umberto Eco