Tarkovsky and Brevity

Context, Compositionality, and Brevity

Because of “arguments from the infinity of language”, compositionality is often seen as a ‘non-negotiable’ feature of any theory of the semantics of natural language. But there are a number of features of “ordinary language discourse” that make it seem that compositionality is not true of natural language semantics. Some of these features are lumped together under the rubric of ‘context’, and i...

Readings of Adorno with Tarkovsky and Haneke

The value of brevity.

Measuring Brevity and Violence: A Comparison of Approaches

brevity and the resistance literature

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