Authorities Utilizing Signifier – Che
Sitting at the window of the Washington Commons in Prospect Heights / Crown Heights a few weeks ago, I couldn’t help but notice an undercover cop heading out wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt. Generally, it would only be an amused observation, but I happen to be re-visting Barthes and reading Catherine Belsey’s Poststructuralism, A Very Short Introduction, so I just had to take a picture to capture the moment.
Undercover police prepare for a night at work.
As Belsey puts it “Postmodernism celebrates the capability of the signifier itself to create new forms and new rules.”