https://padlet.com/nicholascabezas/nzkqv0nfbymgcdif Mythemes in Darmok en-us 2021-01-29 15:36:31 UTC 2024-11-21 18:32:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4ac.png nicholascabezas https://padlet.com/nicholascabezas/nzkqv0nfbymgcdif/wish/1141231747 "But are they truly incomprehensible? In my experience, communication's a matter of patience, imagination. I would like to believe that these are qualities that we have in sufficient measure." (00:01:09-00:01:17).]]> 2021-01-29 16:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholascabezas/nzkqv0nfbymgcdif/wish/1141231747 nicholascabezas https://padlet.com/nicholascabezas/nzkqv0nfbymgcdif/wish/1141239431 "Temba is a person... his arms wide? Because he's holding them apart. In generosity? In giving? In taking..." (00:13:00-00:13:17).]]> 2021-01-29 16:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholascabezas/nzkqv0nfbymgcdif/wish/1141239431 nicholascabezas https://padlet.com/nicholascabezas/nzkqv0nfbymgcdif/wish/1141401173 "Shaka, when the walls fell." Picard makes another tentative discovery. "Shaka. You said that before. When I was trying to build a fire. Is that a failure? An inability to do something? (Bogost 4).]]> 2021-01-29 16:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholascabezas/nzkqv0nfbymgcdif/wish/1141401173 nicholascabezas https://padlet.com/nicholascabezas/nzkqv0nfbymgcdif/wish/1141425221 If we pretend that "Shaka, when the walls fell" is a signifier, then its signified is not the fictional mythological character Shaka, nor the myth that contains whatever calamity caused the walls to fall, but the logic by which the situation itself came about. Tamarian language isn't really language at all, but machinery" (Bogost 15).]]> 2021-01-29 16:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nicholascabezas/nzkqv0nfbymgcdif/wish/1141425221