1. Scott McCloud / Ludwig Wittgenstein The Treachery of Images / and Language Games Brett Oppegaard Creative Media and Digital Culture 375 Language, Texts and Technology Spring 2011

2. This is not a pipe. These are individual symbols strung together. If you understand English, you probably can make some sort of meaning out of them....

3. What does McCloud mean when he writes that comics work via “amplification by simplification”? How does McCloud describe our “constant awareness of self” as functioning? What is the difference between the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses? How do those connect? This is not a pipe. These are individual symbols strung together. If you understand English, you probably can make some sort of meaning out of them....

4. What is the difference between “received” information and “perceived” information? Is visual literacy the universal communication panacea of the 21 st century? This is not a pipe. These are individual symbols strung together. If you understand English, you probably can make some sort of meaning out of them....

5. Wittgenstein Images courtesy of, from L-R: the International Wittgenstein Symposium, Chris Madden, SimplyCharly.com, The New York Times and Wittgenstein's Loveur.

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9. Courtesy of AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

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16. Tweet a one-sentence description of this classroom. Tweet a one-word description of this classroom.

17. Why do we name things? (Aphorism 27) How and why does the expression “Slab!” morph into different forms due to context? (Aphorism 19-20) Tell us how a clarinet sounds. (Aphorism 78)