"Bears are signifiers for gay culture and signifiers for Arab culture," Mr. Hellu explained.
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I don't possess the strong female signifiers I once did.
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When nudity is performed without those signifiers, it becomes trashy.
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This isn't some serious search for genetic signifiers, of course.
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On closer inspection, signifiers of class hide in plain sight.
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He knew he had to win the war of signifiers.
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Through decades of Westerns, through the fetishization of the Constitution, through ideological maneuvering on the part of the NRA, guns have become signifiers — deadly ones, but signifiers nonetheless — of the American ideal of personal freedom.
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Frank not only builds from those innovations but inverts their signifiers.
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But it is also not above poking fun at these signifiers.
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Instead, Julia's otherness is marked using an array of other signifiers.
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But you also mentioned wanting to obscure these signifiers of identity.
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Reign skillfully adapted them into signifiers of trashy kitsch in 2013.
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I am attuned to blunt social signifiers and very specific functional beauty.
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A lot of that was meant to be signifiers for her depression.
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It was sort of like - certainly the signifiers of adulthood are there.
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We never talk about it — we're just drawn to the same signifiers.
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Slippage between signifiers is another running theme in many of the works.
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In fact, we should view the Antwaan Randle Els as signifiers of progress.
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Attacking someone on perceived class signifiers isn't smart for a variety of reasons.
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A man needs some cultural signifiers to know who to talk to sometimes.
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"white trash" signifiers, even if the term itself never rises above the level
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Trump sees women as trophies -- signifiers of sway -- for the financially successful male.
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So I start with a cloudy idea and then turn it into crystallized signifiers.
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This dealbreaker factor stretches into punctuation and slang, signifiers for the very online, too.
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The line offers a baffling and contradictory mash-up of skating and streetwear signifiers.
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Worse, only 8% of working-class callers, regardless of racial signifiers, were called back.
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Maybe narrative as an amalgamation of flashing signifiers, textures, shapes, objects, colors, and dynamics.
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MH: Cultural signifiers do not need to be exclusive to one particular context anymore.
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It's fun to attempt to decode the many signs and signifiers in Marshall's paintings.
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There are the much-discussed physical signifiers of Meghan's difference: She wears messy buns!
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But Eiseman did clarify that there are different signifiers of blue depending on the hue.
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The family pulled together a photoshoot, complete with blue balloons and other traditional gender signifiers.
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But the film improves significantly on the book by prioritizing the story over the signifiers.
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Now you're 25, and ready to wear signifiers of your childhood on your denim jacket!
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Driverless cars are one of the ultimate signifiers of the future — the real Jetsons stuff.
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These were not accidental product choices; they are signifiers of a newly influential cultural class.
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Mr. Snyder, for his part, deploys signifiers of importance without having anything much to say.
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The band's unique strain of indie pop is not easily qualified by rigid genre signifiers.
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All the genre signifiers are here: high tech, low life, biologically integrated hardware, and paranoia.
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Lately I've begun to wonder how this mélange of signifiers will shape her adult persona.
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I agree that celebrities tend to function as signifiers of larger cultural and political ideas.
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And in this new book, Chute seems aware of — and prickly about — these particular signifiers.
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For all its noble intentions, Thanksgiving just can't compete with the powerful signifiers of Christmas.
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For all its noble intentions, Thanksgiving just can't compete with the powerful signifiers of Christmas.
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Cars, the great American signifiers of social ascension and escape, figured poignantly in these narratives.
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Cars, the great American signifiers of social ascension and escape, figured poignantly in these narratives.
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"Lives" might become "Loves," but I worried about the signifiers of group violence associated in pornography.
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Those are the Star Wars signifiers that matter to me, and they're all here in abundance.
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What does it mean when you're away from all those signifiers to be a queer body?
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After all, we are bound to identify with our cultural signifiers, whether flags or everyday objects.
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But there wasn't the idea of taking the photographs and changing them to free-floating signifiers.
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There are the usual signifiers: people still wearing their puffa jackets indoors, crowded in one room.
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So I thought about mashing ancient myths around beauty, sexuality, and identity with more modern signifiers.
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Despite the specificity of their visual and textual signifiers the resultant imagery lacks any literal identity.
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Somehow, Enoch's wife must have convinced herself that the words she was repeating were empty signifiers.
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In fact, certain products were so popular, they've become cultural signifiers for all of us millennials.
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Political rhetoric in America is filled with signifiers of Christian identity, and it always has been.
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The cultural signifiers of the wealth reflect the power relations that already exist in the world.
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Almost immediately, the preoccupation with daily life and its signifiers unseats an emphasis on impersonal forms.
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It's as old as time, even when it involves cellphones, drones and other modern-day signifiers.
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The story had all the signifiers of an Allred case: gender warfare, sex, and shock value.
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They had decided to interpret the movie's politics through its signifiers rather than through its content.
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Instead, the 1980s signifiers lift the whole thing, injecting it with some much-needed passion and nuance.
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Ozawa defends music as a pure art form—divorced from commerce, social signifiers, and even rigid theory.
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The Nice Guys is an amiable enough wheel-spinner with plenty of period texture and local signifiers.
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His shorthand utilises commercial and cultural signifiers, and then twists them, dispossessing them of their intended connotation.
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In the foreground are the twin signifiers of Hurley's fragile masculinity: a motorcycle and a leather jacket.
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It has the aesthetic effect of a baroque portrait, but all the signifiers are vital and original.
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But for a disillusioned voter who can't stomach the Democratic field, Yang evades other key signifiers, too.
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The cinematography and the blend of signifiers from different time periods make it all feel somewhat timeless.
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There are a number of social signifiers that would seem to give it a pretty good shot.
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There is a Cold War insistence on the proper signifiers of prosperity alongside a presentiment of doom.
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But its girl-nerd POV never feels gimmicky, in large part because it's divorced from lazy cultural signifiers.
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He dresses up in signifiers that have become stereotypes, like gold chains, unbuttoned silk shirts, and gold rings.
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Tasha Robinson, The Verge: The film improves significantly on the book by prioritizing the story over the signifiers.
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If his work, filled with euphemisms, signifiers, and anecdotes, looks nostalgic and highly personal, that's because it is.
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The band's scrappy songs brimmed with punk attitude, but tossed out the subcultural signifiers for an everyman perspective.
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Binet's characters carry on with all of the arbitrariness of signifiers that have been freed from their signifieds.
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Kaabi-Linke's lyrical abstraction, safely tucked within signifiers of affluence and prestige, yields to the horrors of war.
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A monocultural product reinforces our established range of taste-signifiers rather than challenging them or adding something new.
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Multiple and overlapping signifiers of right and wrong, male and female, Black and white converge, confusing traditional delineations.
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It casts a lot of doubt about what we can count on as signifiers for Hosts versus humans.
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Instead he's a conceptualist who approaches clothing as adornment, as artifact, as potential signifiers of ambition, anxiety, desire.
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As such, these objects meant to function as signifiers of a rich tradition instead become evidence of its absence.
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These visual signifiers from the comic wordlessly communicate characters' personalities, and Vázquez wisely embraces this technique for the film.
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Yet upon closer inspection, one observes an amalgam of cultural signifiers from contemporary life that are anything but idyllic.
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But Obama was also Hollywood, and that status brought with it an additional set of cultural assumptions and signifiers.
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The wedding ring, engagement ring, lavaliere, or pin are signifiers for non-availability which are always attached to women.
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Forget cultural signifiers like "millennial" or "Gen Z." You can really only define generational experience through Saturday morning cartoons.
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The more she piles on the signifiers of a true blue, red-blooded American, the more defiant it becomes.
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He was posting nudes without the signifiers of wealth and whiteness that make public nudity acceptable for his family.
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CG: How do you emancipate the cultural signifiers present in your work, like split-ash baskets or Zuni patterns?
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People pick out a very particular outfit with a lot of signifiers to go and stand in a line.
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Waters's subjects have always been the signifiers and manners of American class, and Mortville is a uniquely American dystopia.
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Often it's easy to see the signifiers of such group identity, in distinctive music, food or clothing, for example.
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Tom Sachs did it in the late 1990s when he used luxury brand signifiers to explore consumerism and branding.
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In fact, the most striking aspect of any Studio Peregalli interior is its complete absence of present-day signifiers.
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And Taha concedes that Mojo doesn't even have data to determine "good" sperm from "bad" — beyond some basic signifiers.
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What happens when our possessions are relegated to objects of mere utility and efficiency, to fleeting signifiers of status?
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"I was using this composite approach to scramble hyper-feminine signifiers and express my own gender fluidity," Dao said.
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The things women drink are signifiers for free time and self-care and conversation — you know, luxuries we can't afford.
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They provide a space for exploring clues and signifiers in a visual context much as one might explore a painting.
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Common signifiers united these woman, while their clothing brought their actions — not their wardrobe — to the forefront of the conversation.
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It's as if the filmmakers are rotely checking off a list of Jurassic Park signifiers, and their apathy is palpable.
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As diluted as objects like broomsticks and cauldrons may have become, they remain signifiers of a witch's lifestyle and practice.
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ET: A Twitter spokesperson said that there are a large amount of signifiers that an account engages in trolling behavior.
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These humble, domestic, familiar materials serve a narrative function as metaphoric signifiers bridging and interweaving personal trauma with public catastrophe.
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There's a tribute to a partnership between Pizza Hut and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and other retro cultural signifiers galore.
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Fashion choices like dark eye makeup, velvet, leather, corsets, and anything with bats are typical signifiers of the goth scene.
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As you'd expect, there's a lot of weightlessness and drifting, airy synth pads as aural signifiers for sensory deprivation soaks.
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His language bristles with signifiers of provocation, but his arguments rarely breach the boundaries of acceptable, liberal-with-qualms opinion.
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Davis has developed a lexicon of negritude: race-specific signifiers, autobiographical fragments, visceral symbols of oppression, and technology-derived icons.
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Still, the feeling of being an outsider, excluded because you don't have access to certain signifiers, is a powerful one.
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These domestic signifiers are then spliced together with jagged borders that mimic those lines you might see on a world map.
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"For many millennial, diamonds have come to represent traditional rituals or bling and status signifiers," the DPA said in a statement.
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Swimming areas, however, pose the problem of revealing the signifiers that indicate to strangers that something about me may be transgressive.
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Rather, they draw on methods associated with commercial illustration and design in order to play with public signifiers and personal poetics.
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He introduces himself with a joke based on the cultural signifiers in her profile, as is the habit of our time.
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What distinguishes "Achilles" is its sliding signifiers — the way it correlates a gooey gestural present with an imperturbable, passive, classical past.
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But these are challenging to date with certainty, and many scholars argue that the proposed examples have insufficiently specific iconographic signifiers.
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Because of the multiple signifiers, Twitter does not believe that sharing a few examples will harm its ability to identify trolls.
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Yachts, private jets, and fancy watches are common signifiers of wealth among the elite, but status symbols vary around the world.
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As modern jazz moves outward from the traditional signifiers of the genre, Sanders' style has emerged in numerous iterations of jazz.
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Twin Peaks is a lot more than just those signifiers, but Audrey is also a lot more than her signature soundtrack.
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"Formation" was an effective amalgam of various black cultural signifiers coalescing into the romantic validation black women needed at the time.
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Cultural signifiers—phrases, styles of dress, appropriate musical tastes—work to signify some societal identities as primary and to dismiss others.
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With Backdrop, the Ebels have applied personal branding and style signifiers to a business "void of any emotion," Mr. Ebel said.
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Negrete tattoos are status signifiers, but the history of their makers — broken homes and outlaw culture — is hard to leave behind.
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Lopez captures an era in which marriage equality has been secured while gay signifiers have been blandly absorbed by the mainstream.
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They don't always say what words, symbols, signifiers, or images push a post from "acceptable" to something that should be deleted.
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In Killing, body hair is but one metonym for pointless virility, along with the more abstract signifiers of authority and affluence.
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The set is a minimalist saloon dotted with old-timey signifiers — a bleached skull, a rifle, a couple of wanted posters.
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"We specifically chose to examine the narrative breadth and power of familiar signifiers because of their familiarity," Fox and Wang write.
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Peacocks, swamis and puzzling posters of Beyoncé as a Bollywood star demonstrate an exclusively white interpretation of the country's vast cultural signifiers.
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It's one of those knowing, glaringly obvious era signifiers that This Is Us is smart enough to know it's not above using.
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Even so, it's hard not to squirm through the number with Prima's scatting ape because of the troubling signifiers it throws out.
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According to a banker at Goldman Sachs, the idea was to play down any signifiers of employment, lest they invite negative repercussions.
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I purposely delete any gender signifiers from my responses, and refer to my spouse without giving away that I am a lesbian.
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Simon uses plants as signifiers for bigger ideas — in this case, the international conferences and decrees that influence governmental and economic systems.
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Contained inside our vessel are signifiers to others about who we believe ourselves to be, and we come to believe it ourselves.
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Signifiers and symbols that have long shouted "Forever England" are the subject of bewildered and fractious debate this cold and sunless November.
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Most elite marathoners work closely with physiologists and are studied for genetic and performance signifiers, metrics with technical names like VO103 max.
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The ancient Egyptians populated their tombs with mummified pets, as companions, and other exotic animals, often as signifiers of wealth and status.
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"I'm never not shocked at the fact that the other dominant signifiers of being a woman and minority overwhelm that," Harris said.
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"Nari recombines culturally specific signifiers and is masterful at teasing out memory, association, history, politics," said John Hatfield, executive director of Socrates.
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And the gift speaks to just how much value Chinese billionaires place on US credentials and social signifiers like a Stanford diploma.
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Trap signifiers and scabrous noise get thrown into the magic bullet here, with Franco Franco dizzily spitting in Italian over the top.
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Besides being gorgeous, then, it's also a witty play with incongruous signifiers, a kind of a joke appealing to high-end fashion sophisticates.
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Auto-tuned voices, kick drums, ascending polysynth chords; these were the signifiers of a kind of pop that said nothing and promoted excess.
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That's what we're trying to do–to [find] the signifiers that make something feel either male or female, or both male and female.
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Its thesis is simple: Your clothing desires can be reduced to a series of signifiers that the service automates and adapts to you.
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Think matching scallop-hemmed jackets and skirts, 3D geometric earrings, and vinyl raincoats in pop-bright hues; all the '60s signifiers are there.
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Our cultural signifiers might be different, but basic human emotions are an experience that spans all of us as humans on this planet.
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That "Nice for What" is a full-on pastiche of bounce rather than a song that incorporates some of its signifiers is significant.
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Yet the sex, one soon sees, is actually imagined on much the same macho terms as before, just with the signifiers shaken up.
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Each ring in her Cityscape line features architectural signifiers from its specified city, from Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Building to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
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Over the years, I plucked many such signifiers from the world of casual, lightly subversive men's wear and planted them in my outfits.
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The usual signifiers were there: "Deplorable Me" and "Trump that Bitch" T-shirts, an overwhelmingly white and mostly middle-aged or older crowd.
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These pieces fall flat because they've been scrubbed of their gender signifiers, which might be all that retailers think their markets can handle.
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Gropius's design signifiers are much drier — flat roofs, glass corners — and have now been thoroughly absorbed into the general collection of modernist imagery.
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He has a familiar mix of gun politic signifiers about ecological preservation, wildlife restoration, respect for military veterans, police and emergency medical workers.
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There seem to be no subtle truths under the cacophony of overt signifiers, so that every joke about him becomes merely a reference.
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Other characters get their own costume signifiers, all of them pulled out of a big metal pot and clearly explained at the start.
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The bulk of that spending reportedly goes towards six houses, almost a dozen country-club memberships, and other signifiers of status and influence.
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" They are signifiers of a "loss of a national 'we' and national control — all the things we've seen erupt in a huge way.
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This show, made up completely of signifiers of Lee's emotional associations, seems to present a universal past, sparking visitors' own thoughts and memories.
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The permanence of the tree as witness in Martínez Celaya's paintings is countered by the ever-changing boy — both primary signifiers in his work.
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It's all presumably in the name of artistic purity because nothing screams "real music" like placing signifiers of faux-rural authenticity on your work.
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For those interested in continuing to get their fix of private jets, tropical islands, jewelry, and other signifiers of indescribable wealth, look no further.
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Glenn Ligon's recent book A People on the Cover looks at the photographs (and texts) on trade book covers as signifiers in identity formation.
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Constantly aware of the complexity of race, her most recent solo show, "The Powder Room," features white-seeming characters juxtaposed with classically black signifiers.
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There's an aesthetic to jihadist propaganda videos that makes them seductive, he says; cultural signifiers can be deployed as a devastatingly effective recruitment tool.
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In short order, street names, monuments and other imperial signifiers were modified or removed altogether to consecrate a complete break with the old regime.
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Signifiers of unslick auteurism are on immediate display — natural light, hand-held camera, a dreamy laxity when it comes to the use of focus.
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Seeing these events again reminded me how covering the opaque world of the Vatican so often meant reading signs, interpreting signifiers, understanding obscure statements.
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It does not emerge from coherent or psychologically compelling characters, because those characters exist only as signifiers of the moral value of cosmopolitan taste.
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The mellow way these cultural signifiers are treated, however, results not in an acid satire of progressive boho urbanites, but in an affectionate sendup.
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We assign meanings not only to what these public figures represent as individuals, but also to what they represent as signifiers for America itself.
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Though Mohammed's subjects are universally Black, and tap signifiers and icons specific to that community, the overall effect is visiting a place of imagination.
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With these works, Rodriguez offers a kind of 21st-century directory of racial and economic idiosyncrasies, human life braced by screens, buttressed by brand signifiers.
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Halsey's use of everyday objects and signifiers of black cultural life also align her with the tradition of Los Angeles assemblage artists like Betye Saar.
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Fast's assembly of negative cultural signifiers could be taken to imply that Chinatown has reached a derelict and dire state and is begging for gentrification.
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It's a system in which whiteness and wealth are signifiers of purity and moral superiority, while blackness and sex work are impure and morally inferior.
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These drinks have always been quiet signifiers: bottom-shelf colas are for bored teenagers to tip out in the parking lot and turn into bongs.
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But how often does progressive pop culture treat any of the above cultural signifiers as the signs of a person with a rich inner life?
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To patch over the problems of shareholder capitalism, we lean on cultural signifiers and hope they justify the role business leaders play in the world.
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To shut down the blockers, Facebook is taking aim at the signifiers in digital ads that blockers use to detect whether something is an ad.
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Among the signifiers of a New York summer—the Mister Softee jingle, air-conditioner droplets messing up your hair—is the sound of blank verse.
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Yet Tawny, a trans femme, grew up on a diet of male signifiers, more likely to read Sports Illustrated than Blume's novel about female puberty.
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Freedom here refers to the free splay of signifiers, making the poem a site of incongruous connections, where surplus music and meaning escape immediate comprehension.
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No wonder we resort to the internet, the one immortal thing we have created, to stockpile our imperfect, pixelated signifiers of what we have lost.
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But more importantly, it casually dismisses those hardships using existing luxury concepts like palanquins, vehicles that have long been signifiers of affluence and high status.
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Books can be aesthetic signifiers, colorful set pieces of sorts, their spines telegraphing a certain gravitas — or a certain playfulness, depending on how they're arranged.
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The visual language of heavy metal is punctuated by certain age-old signifiers: denim, leather, bullet belts, long hair, black T-shirts with skeletal logos.
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"It's often in the music for British or British loyalist characters that we see the most signifiers of European music," she said in an interview.
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Its early hours substitute for this by tossing out a lot of explosive signifiers — hoods and nooses, alongside the franchise's trademark watches and smiley faces.
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"The feeling of being an outsider, excluded because you don't have access to certain signifiers, is a powerful one," says one of our advice columnists.
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Yams's names were signifiers, pillaging street folklore and rap trivia to distinguish an informed, singular voice, most satisfying to those who recognized its source material.
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On Nantucket, stilettos and valet parking have become the norm, along with other signifiers of the immense wealth now summering on the New England island.
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Penny may also expand its scope to other cities, which could shed light on how signifiers of wealth vary depending on cultural and geographic factors.
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When you're feeling the high, you feel good and everything's exciting, which gave me the opportunity to use signifiers like happy colors and more positive elements.
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Instead, he scammed his way into the Manhattan social scene, wielding the same signifiers of wealth — the Ivy League schools, the model wives, the conspicuous consumption.
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Maybe the hyper-feminization of Asian men aided me in transition, but as I became a woman, visual signifiers of my Japaneseness vanished from my body.
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The filmmakers include enough signifiers to make this recognizably Ghostbusters, much like Star Wars: The Force Awakens trades on familiar plot beats and deliberately courts nostalgia.
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It's all topped off with a vague melange of 80s aesthetic signifiers, including images of space travel, combat iconography, 8-bit stylings, and lots of neon.
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Both hedonistic architectural projects are signifiers of the overindulgence of a bilious, vanished age and yet testify to Lequeu's drawing dexterity, cultural erudition, and voluptuous obsessiveness.
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Perhaps they wouldn't have used such obvious cultural signifiers as Aztec dancers in the Zócalo or the gondolas of the Xochimilco canals to add local color.
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Perhaps because his voice is more genre-neutral than Mr. Shelton's, Mr. Bryan — who sings with some soul music inflections — is emphatic about his rural signifiers.
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Indeed, we largely consider insects dirty and drawn to decay, signifiers and carriers of disease; we call them pests, a word whose Latin root means plague.
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Sharing the scouting article says you were a Scout, and you were a serious enough Scout to understand the signifiers and experiences that only Scouts had.
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In this instance, Thomas fluently interweaves cultural signifiers, like Huey P. Newton's recognizable rattan peacock chair and a silky durag, into her meticulously curated studio set.
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When she began painting in the 1950s, she was really into Franz Kline and the big, gestural Expressionist paintings that became signifiers for the male artist.
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If her paintings rely, sometimes perhaps too heavily, on stereotypical signifiers of femininity, "Red" reveals the less easily defined qualities of female pleasure, pain, and potential.
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The cracked, mottled surfaces are more than simply signifiers of discontent: they are evocations of moss and weeds; rivers and sewers; dirt and rust; blood and smoke.
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Holmes collected signifiers of seriousness, some of which, like the voice, were clearly meant to combat gendered baggage around women in power by evoking associations of masculinity.
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H: You transform acts we might recognize, like a procession, and collapse and confuse these signifiers so that viewers have to actively decipher what your message is.
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What Halperin and Morning Joe are doing is throwing around signifiers—they signify "smug liberal elite"—even though Trump's comments have been condemned across the ideological spectrum.
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"Treat You Better" is Mr. Mendes's lovely new single, and like "Stitches," it's a song that highlights his maturity while constantly showing off signifiers of his youth.
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But since then, when representing solidarity after an attack, the focus has shifted to the borders of the city, onto signifiers of the physical space and boundaries.
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The title itself suggests the ephemeral, "Smells Like," as is the state of flux rendered by the shadows, monuments, and cultural signifiers at play in the photo.
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" He reflects on material possessions as psychological signifiers, informing us that movers know more about shippers "in 30 minutes than their best friends do after 30 years.
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Theater posters, opening-night gifts, awards, framed letters (among them, an admiring note from Stephen Sondheim) and other career signifiers are generally confined to Ms. Ahrens's office.
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Even the name Comme des Garçons is a reaction against the feminine — the statement, translating to "like the boys," implies a jettisoning of traditional signifiers of femininity.
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All the works in the show manage to be familiar in form and in cultural signifiers, but the sum of their parts is almost always a concoction.
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But researchers have been unable to identify the meaning of any possible nonnumerical signifiers in khipus, and as a result they cannot read any nonmathematical words or phrases.
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But as you pointed out, it's not just the Kardashianization of it all, but the proliferation of superficial corporate signifiers—particularly in headline jargon—that's a real creeper.
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When he first appears on screen, Mr Koons—famed for his monumental "Balloon Dog" works that are slick, smooth signifiers of wealth—is overseeing a hive of activity.
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But the album's presentation of British signifiers is a little more complicated on closer inspection—everything seems a little warped, a little worn, a little worse for wear.
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Today, one of the best signifiers of a good DM is the willingness to pick up and toss out the guidebook in order to keep the audience entertained.
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"Wuthering Heights" was inculcated with progressive rock signifiers—a trend that emerged at the end of the 60s, with its penchant for musical dexterity and complex song structures.
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But Love is still packed with well-known Apatow signifiers, from the comedian-packed cast to the Los Angeles setting to the immaturity of the mismatched central couple.
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Traditional wealth signifiers like private planes, yachts, and Rolexes may be a standard among the elite across the world, but status symbols also vary from place to place.
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It becomes personality music, and the dominant qualities of Presley's persona — his sexuality, his masculinity, his larger‑than‑life charisma — become the dominant signifiers of what rock was.
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All of her old signifiers are gone: The Playboy Mansion, her first destination in Los Angeles, her incubator and university, is currently on the market for $200 million.
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There's antique Budweiser signage, distressed wood, big containers of cheap beer—the signifiers are there, but something in my gut tells me that it's not a "real" dive.
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Though many nonreligious Chinese celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday, she said the ban on Christmas displays reflects "increased hostility" toward signifiers of Western culture and Western values.
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To use "gentrification" to describe lifestyle trends is to focus on that second step rather than the first one — to focus on class signifiers instead of class itself.
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You've invoked all the signifiers of Herzog without having to contend with the actual strangeness or complexity of his oeuvre (she typed, after renewing the domain name wernerherzogvalentines.com).
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The exhibition demonstrates that while visual signifiers of gender manifest clearly in these prints, gender and sexual expression in traditional Japanese society was fluid and complex, transcending binaries.
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The application's claims are broad, so this hypothetical system could be either extremely specific — like cross-referencing faces — or extremely comprehensive, like analyzing photos for brands or other signifiers.
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At the turn of the decade, kids whipped themselves into a frenzy by throwing together a few signifiers and plastering the results across a new constellation of social platforms.
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I can see now that these social signifiers change how clients perceive me, but I didn't understand why until I had the money, as an adult, to access them.
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Sociologist Thorstein Veblen called elites at the time a "leisure class" because they rarely worked and instead spent their days mastering nonproductive tasks as social signifiers of their wealth.
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On Svpply you could find the melange of signifiers of a certain class of early-adopter design-bro: minimalist sneakers, fancy T-shirts, Leica cameras, and drop-crotch sweatpants.
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Since its founding in 2002 by historian Justinian Jampol, the Wende has accumulated over 100,000 artifacts of culture, politics, work, and other signifiers of daily life in the USSR.
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Part of what makes the meme work is that you don't actually need to be familiar with the show to read the facial hair and cap as class signifiers.
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Many symbols of social progress were approved to be added to the official emoji lineup yesterday and many handy signifiers of what-the-hell-just-happened were as well.
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There were tropes I wanted to avoid, like the obvious signifiers of booze Britain, a cheekily knowing nod to the likely lads in Fila tracksuits necking Castlemaine to Kasabian.
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In his disdain for the hierarchies of Washington, his attention to cultural signifiers and his fixation on foreign enemies, Zinke represents the post-Tea Party strain of conservative populism.
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A Make America Great Again baseball cap, a taste for Budweiser and NASCAR—those, rather than income level or accumulated wealth, are the signifiers of class that we understand.
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In August, acclaimed author N.K. Jemisin, whose works carry themes of resistance in a time of apocalypse and bear sharp signifiers of hopepunk, won a historic Hugo Awards threepeat.
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It's naïve in its use of roots music and rock as signifiers of something true — as if the excess of years past wasn't, somehow, its own form of sincerity.
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But as D.I.Y. musicians like PC Music began flirting with pop sounds and signifiers — and streaming further eroded musical borders — Ms. Cottrill turned to beat-making on her laptop.
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American upper-middle-class culture (where the opportunities are) is now laced with cultural signifiers that are completely illegible unless you happen to have grown up in this class.
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Apparently aiming for an open-ended psychological thriller, Ms. Thoman focuses so fiercely on atmosphere that her narrative isn't just opaque, it's a confounding collision of signifiers and symbols.
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On its surface, the track veers toward tropical pop signifiers, with its dancehall rhythm, funk-lite electric guitars and the brrrrrat-a-tat-tat of a syncopated rawhide drum.
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It's a caricature of others' idea of it, laying it on thick: Just look at Jimmy's outfits, which layer the signifiers of "rural" and "trash" to the point of ridiculousness.
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The upmarket tracksuits, hoodies and other willfully subversive signifiers of survivalist chic that were shown for spring at Vetements and Chloé, among others, have made their way stateside in force.
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This past year, we've taken the holidays as an opportunity to turn our most beloved cultural signifiers on their head using bright colors, a lot of goop and hot dogs.
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"High Maintenance" has been almost anthropologically obsessive in its portrayal of New York's bohemian class, and the new season is attentive when it comes to the signifiers of contemporary Brooklyn.
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The characters in The Room seem to be caught in a surreal alternate universe where human behavior has none of its traditionally understood signifiers and human speech is Dadaist nonsense.
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Even though it might seem dance floor directed, having all the right signifiers, it might not work very well in that particular setting, and it's something I'm very aware of.
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This romantic noir is a volcanic study of gender, queerness, and the ways in which queers are undermined by symbols and signifiers themselves, not merely the figureheads that hold them.
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The signifiers in the paintings point to various moments in time, each dealing with a major theme which is anchored by the Greek mythological figures depicted in the narrative works.
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You can buy cannabis accessories in a room with exposed brick and industrial-inspired shelving, just like at a place where you can buy all of your other class signifiers.
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The story swings from the Nevada desert to the Indonesian rain forest to Wall Street boardrooms, and the screen bristles with signifiers of capitalist activity: meetings, phone calls, stock tickers.
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Production efficiencies have allowed other signifiers of fine watchmaking such as the perpetual calendar and even the tourbillon to be incorporated into what the industry would term more affordable watches.
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Because his latest record grapples with religion, using signifiers of the Christianity he abandoned on songs like the title track and "Hail Mary," it a similar gravitas as Buckley's Grace.
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Being all things to all people — while still holding on to enough quirky signifiers to seem like an outsider — is a good summary of where pop music is in 2017.
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But when a band aligns themselves and their art so closely with queer signifiers, that art is allowed to be scrutinised within that lens, particularly within the context of making money.
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Whether the specters of future skyscrapers, or the smoldering skeletons of societies collapsed, the manipulated photographs of Jacob Felländer are at once filled with signifiers and unfamiliar in what they intimate.
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A smorgasbord of religious and political signifiers, with a few seemingly random symbols thrown in for good measure, it's become its own symbol of a banal, graphically incoherent 21st-century hippie.
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I couldn't get over it after the first time I saw it and I was obsessed with the ruby slippers and all these signifiers that are considered traditionally gay, classically gay.
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In many ways, Ghansah's work on Baldwin represents the objective of This Time: to take apart the hazy, abstract signifiers of black America and find the individual, embodied truth of them.
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But in a world where avocado toast, kombucha and wheat berries have become overused signifiers, Kali infuses them once more with meaning that skirts preciousness in favor of seriously beautiful food.
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As her father's illness renders him increasingly unknowable to his daughter, Ada becomes a detective amassing the available clues, attempting to create a person out of a bundle of superficial signifiers.
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Regardless, these two Coolness Signifiers make cool-signifying pins, which, I would argue, are better for signifying coolness than band shirts or bad hair dye because they're small and not annoying.
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Clark is infuriated that all signifiers of Nicole's life and soul have been removed from the house and she doesn't even realize that she's playing a different game than the defense.
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"An outsider might not totally comprehend, we aren't just exposed to the graphic videos—you'll have to watch them closely, often repeatedly, for specific policy signifiers," one moderation source told Motherboard.
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Lucas is perhaps best known for her works that adopt perishable food as explicit sexual signifiers to question traditional depictions of the female body and the conceit of the macho male.
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Other work of theirs further abstracts this flatness by creating black silhouettes of its subjects, which allows Orellana to explore and challenge the most basic and iconic signifiers of gender identity.
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"We used to display wealth via what we purchased and there were a lot of kind of pop culture signifiers of displaying wealth," said Jennifer Hyman, Rent the Runway's chief executive.
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Yet they also work as celestial signifiers, made of stone quarried from this planet but standing for others, maybe from this solar system, maybe from one millions of light-years away.
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Any impression of him must include these signifiers, but they are so numerous and recognizable as to weigh it down, limiting the space for the impressionist to contribute his own insights.
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Other military institutions have recognized the power of culture and made significant strides toward crediting women service members by replacing their cultural signifiers — slogans, songs, and titles — with gender-inclusive alternatives.
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Ne-Yo: Another Kind of Christmas (Motown) Ne-Yo has always loved retro signifiers of class: airbrushed surfaces, crisply mixed martinis, men wearing cleanly pressed suits and glancing at pocket-watches.
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The ersatz signifiers and hermetic communiqués of today's asemic writing represent one variety of artistic response to an information glut facilitated by machines whose source code is scrutable only to specialists.
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The Haywain (Google Cultural Institute) After Constable (Hand Painted Oil on Canvas, 2016) The works are slightly absurdist takes on how we often make invisible the digital signifiers of the contemporary world.
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But the video — and subsequent performances, including a cringey SNL appearance — contains visual and lyrical content that is not a focused homage to Japan but rather a garble of exociticizing Asian signifiers.
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Of course, gender nonconforming people are people with a multitude of personal styles, but dressing one gender up in the signifiers of the other falls flat, and feels like an opportunity missed.
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There was no solid father figure, no Freudian male to help form my desires—just a strange amalgam of cultural signifiers that tried to tell me what my ideal partner should be.
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What outsiders fail to understand about urbano is just how much it genuinely reps hip-hop, often eschewing Latin American cultural signifiers in favor of more universally understood and emblematic rap aesthetics.
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He posts Michael Jordan quotes about perseverance on his Instagram, which is relevant, because the basic ethos of every Bachelorette contestant is brazen signifiers of masculinity couched in hollow displays of vulnerability.
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Although his paintings became monolithic postwar signifiers of what the American Dream should look like, it's important to recognize that Rockwell also advocated for progressive ideals like social welfare and civil rights.
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Ki-woo crosses the threshold into another world, one of cultivated sensitivities and warmly polished surfaces that are at once signifiers of bourgeois success and blunt reproaches to his own family's deprivation.
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The announcement offers a green light to start layering the unborn person with signifiers: to plan outfits and decorate rooms, to imagine bonding rituals, to project your own insecurities and unfulfilled longings.
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But with breathtaking speed and audacity, its products and signifiers and favorite bands were being embraced and sent to market by the very corporations they were meant to be an alternative to.
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In all, there were at least a dozen or so signifiers in the VTOS program that Uber employees could use to assess whether users were regular new riders or probably city officials.
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Around 1980, David Salle's stylish, cryptic paintings — dreamlike arrangements of art-historical fragments, lifestyle signifiers and brusquely rendered nudes — seduced and baffled their way to the center of a booming art market.
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The announcement offers a green light to start layering the unborn person with signifiers: to plan outfits and decorate rooms, to imagine bonding rituals, to project your own insecurities and unfulfilled longings.
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It also reminds us how radical an act it is to make things by hand at a time when fabrication and production – signifiers for the triumph of outsourcing and capitalism – are rampant.
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And for the first third of GGR's premiere season, the lack of subtly is tiresome, whether it's the way the women discuss the problems they face or the show's signifiers of the '60s.
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First of all, "females" is one of those signifiers that send some women around the twist, connoting as it does a reduction to biological function that reeks of low-level misogyny at best.
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Daenerys's clothes have been determined by the geography and cultural signifiers of those around her, not to mention her need to be able to hop on horses and dragons with a moment's notice.
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Similar to a Thomas Pynchon novel, the profusion of semi-connected signifiers tease the audience with the prospect of a conspiracy, while ultimately frustrating the desire for a transparent and cohesive larger meaning.
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But, then again, Bernstein's images, as made manifest in this show, are signifiers that have less to do with a specific moment than with the perpetual cycles of war, power, sex, and death.
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The powwow has all the usual signifiers of Native American life: tepees, donkeys, women dressed in buckskin suits, men on folding chairs beating a large leather drum, vendors hawking dream catchers and geodes.
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"Cold Outside," one of several strong tracks on her new EP, "PHO," is rife with signifiers of 1990s proto-neo-soul — soothing tempo; warm, jazz-inflected singing; ever-so-subtle boom-bap production.
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Well, no one except the crafty intro packaging editor, who stamped the top eight with three easy signifiers in HUGE TEXT to help us remember exactly who we should think these kids are.
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I gather that for masculinity to function on a visual and psychological level today, its signifiers must be present more literally: on tee shirts, shampoo, and protein bars, and herein lies its fragility.
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Before the streaming age, and before the wild proliferation of cable, there used to be more easily identifiable signifiers about what we were about to watch, based on time slot and channel, mostly.
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The project of burying the old-fashioned signifiers of luxury and replacing them with new ones has been, in fact, one of the major themes pursued by chefs over the past 15 years.
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The single most famous pro-Trump artist, Jon McNaughton, mixes fantasy with historical and biblical signifiers in his work, figurative paintings that in some ways resemble works from the 22012th and 22016th centuries.
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Her focus on being the candidate for women ran into the problem that Warren, Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Tulsi Gabbard, and Marianne Williamson all possessed the same signifiers and many of the same aspirations.
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Maybe I didn't see them because I simply didn't trust that KRZ was actually committed to these themes instead of just using signifiers diluted by their regular presence in the pop culture palette.
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Creative expression became a conduit for cultural expression, and these unique cultural signifiers were critically important symbols of Chicano pride among riders during the rising tides of Civil Rights activism in the 1960s.
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The Department of the Interior approves applications for federal recognition based in part on whether a tribe has a distinct political system, land claim, and shared set of cultural practices, among other signifiers.
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" Like the word "atomic," these inferences embrace the duality of creation and destruction; the paintings' "exquisitely ravaged expanses" are exhilarating to look at, despite reading as signifiers of "the irreparable damage already done.
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The Minimalist abstraction of a waterfall, being still largely recognizable, gives into an explosion of enigmatic geometric signifiers in "Plexiberg" — the signature piece of the show, which confronts visitors immediately as they enter.
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With the show's emphasis on interiority rather than obvious outward signifiers, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Nacho Varga (Michael Mando) has emerged as the best part of Better Call Saul's gangland half.
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The cultural signifiers denoting Kahraman's ethnic heritage are sparse, and few – a colorful shawl with decorative motif patterns, ostensibly from pre-modern Iraq, and thick, jet black tresses and eyebrows set against pallid skin.
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This includes looking for ad cues such as a "Sponsored" link or the close button on pop-up ads, as well as the legally required signifiers that an ad is in fact an ad.
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In other words, the only time the economic circumstances of the people become important is in their cynical and strategic deployment as cultural signifiers enabling the conspicuous display of a political leader's putative earthiness.
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But on second viewing, I thought: The gleeful cigar-chomping, the golf-playing in that garish bathrobe and boots; the eye-twitching, the sudden screaming — they're all perhaps meant to be signifiers of crazy.
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Much of millennial consumer culture is about our instinctive sense of precarity, our allergy to corporate signifiers, and our formless urge to be good people who won't screw up the world all over again.
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There is a building boom, bustling sports stadiums and upscale signifiers like the Whole Foods Market or the Shake Shack opening soon that are transforming the areas in and around Detroit's once desolate downtown.
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We go to the well of pop culture for easy cultural signifiers and simple identifications because they give us a break from parsing all the things we have to parse just to cross the street.
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Predators like these men often have personal charm or charisma, a high position in the industry, and signifiers of respect (Oscars, for instance) from others that make it difficult or even impossible to confront them.
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After all, cultural signifiers aren't the main reason this chart happened: Rather, it was because he used a ham-handed anecdote to argue that social and cultural barriers matter more than the policy-driven ones.
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Though vibrators are ostensibly just about sensation — the prettiest toy is ultimately a failure if it doesn't lead to an orgasm — they're also signifiers of who we are and how we want to be seen.
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For as long as we have Instagram accounts we're going to keep emptying out the history from our visual signifiers, turning them into pretty shells that we arrange into advertisements for our own personal value.
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Sexist remarks to female lawyers are "among the more overt signifiers of the discrimination, both stated and implicit, that contributes to their underrepresentation in the legal field," according to a study by the bar association.
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Ok true, but you're ignoring some major signifiers, Jules, like being in love with your best friend who also exclusively wears "trackies" and decorated her room with a serial killer-esque altar to David Beckham.
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The perspectival distortions of the floors and walls, which turn the rooms he painted into a collapsing house of cards, no longer came off as mannerisms, but as signifiers of a world losing its bearings.
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As the dolls — now evolved into full-on Nazis — creatively disassemble conventioneers identified solely by lazy signifiers (a yarmulke here, an effeminate gesture there), the filmmakers put their faith in prurience and cunningly miniaturized weaponry.
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Or you could look at the film's riot of racial signifiers — the musical and pop-cultural references as well as the demographics of the setting — as a form of trolling, a coy, self-disavowing provocation.
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Wigs and waistcoats are the visual signifiers of founding authority in the United States, and Lugo has chosen the perfect moment to introduce both porcelain and pottery to this conversation about our past and present.
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The maximalist installation artist often employed signifiers or literal imagery of female genitalia in his pieces, and Jason Rhoades: Installations, 1994–2006 at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles (formerly Hauser Wirth & Schimmel) is replete with pussies.
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We revere her because she is beautiful, because she is Black, because those signifiers both matter and they don't, because her very existence flies in the face of every lie we've ever been told about ourselves.
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Both love symbols and certain cultural signifiers (shaved heads or Mohawks and combat boots); both depend on the catharsis of violence or a raucous show; both have a tendency to sideline women; both are anti-establishment.
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Few places live in the public imagination as signifiers of the West like Montana, a state that boasts unrivaled and largely unspoiled beauty, with just over a million residents spread over 264,22000 square miles of land.
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Scroll through the feed and you're likely to see signifiers of social wellness (friends), mental wellness (books and bathtubs), and physical wellness (yoga and photogenic health foods) that might bear negligible resemblance to one's actual life.
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With her signifiers of millennial hipness and downplaying of carnality in favor of blank-faced ritual, Imhof has given this generation exactly what they deserve, which is also exactly what they want: a picture of themselves.
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Patch 1.7 came out on all platforms Tuesday, bringing with it changes to Ana, D.Va, Lúcio, Roadhog and Sombra, as well as an expanded communication wheel, and ability icons and headshot signifiers in the kill feed.
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The end result of this sameness is that a country can pitch itself to the monied Monocle class simply by adopting its chosen signifiers, or hiring Winkreative to do it for them in a rebranding campaign.
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A part of me feels decidedly anti-feminist writing about another woman's appearance, but we don't move the conversation forward by pretending the natural outward signifiers of age should never be noticed, discussed or even celebrated.
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Some artists, aiming to live up to critical hype, overreach, packing their albums with conceptual moves and bloated signifiers; others turn inward, fixated on understatement and the reticent gesture, so evasive they can't be pinned down.
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He became "keenly aware of the signifiers of power, the implications of the traditional portrait, which are about privilege, power, elitism," said Eugenie Tsai, curator of the Brooklyn Museum's 2015 midcareer survey of Mr. Wiley's work.
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There is one, special way in which the cultural signifiers of the rich do actively maintain the inequitable status quo, though: They trick people into thinking that they are the difference instead of just reflecting it.
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The problem is that ballroom's influence on the mainstream is seldom credited; its signifiers have become familiar but stripped from their original context, leaving the scene and its colorful characters all but invisible to the masses.
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Setting out to see how far the 1957 war horse could go toward examining hucksterism and otherness in an America we might recognize today, Ms. Green eliminated the straw hats, parasols and other signifiers of 1912.
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In pop culture, wealthy people were revered as glamorous and aspirational, but also — in shows like Dynasty, Dallas, and the early reality show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous — cartoonishly drenched in signifiers of their wealth.
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Just like the insults "geek" and "nerd" have been adopted as proud signifiers of niche interests, identifying as petty signals a willingness to point out slights and center details that are overlooked in the wider culture.
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In "Golf Mound" and "Fixin to Eat" (both 2017), as in most of his work I've seen, the characters have mixed eyes, noses, and lips, the features that regardless of (surrounding) skin color act as racial signifiers.
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But, there's a shared experience of deep obsession and deep dependence and that can take different paths, and it's sort of like for people maybe who haven't struggled with [addiction], the external signifiers can seem really important.
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Because legitimate cannabis businessmen also need to avoid the stereotypes associated with the stoner label, which seems to stick like glue in an age when social media signifiers define so much of how other people perceive you.
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In many ways this image is a straightforward beauty shot, one in which Katayama uses signifiers of sexiness, including red lipstick, red nails, black eyeliner, and lingerie, to demonstrate that these markers easily transcend a particular body.
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She foregrounds musical elements that code exotic (oud, kazoo, Asian percussion, high, squiggly keyboard) and fit in harmonically, as suits an album whose songs concern, dwell on, or simply project signifiers relevant to borders, refugees and othering.
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Approaches vary, but Mr Jarosinski's style generally addresses its audience directly ("Should you need me…," for example or, "BELGRADE, get your floating signifiers and šljivovica ready…"), not unlike the way Dostoyevsky used to target his "dear reader".
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The writer-director starts the way he means to go on by putting a funk track over the titles, and he proceeds to tick off the usual 70s signifiers, from elaborate facial hair to brightly coloured suits.
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This generation of children has grown up with constant screen time, inundated with an endless stream of images that eventually renders many of those visual signifiers meaningless, where Nazi symbolism is just processed as more cartoonish provocation.
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Morris Park's low, sober buildings and wide avenues are a backdrop for vibrant multicultural signifiers: halal food vendors, hookah lounges, barber shops offering fades and straight shaves, and at least one bakery window filled with wedding cakes.
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The first is that the president exists in a cloud of signifiers: his infomercial hand gestures, his practiced facial expressions, his broad accent and narrow diction and relentless catchphrases, to say nothing of his hair and skin.
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And while that distinction doesn't reflect on the quality of either show, it explains a lot about how we think about cultural signifiers, and the ways we expect our entertainment to reflect our political and cultural values.
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Such period signifiers bend, bleed, even explode as you step over the threshold into the apartment itself, where one feels immediately transported — perhaps to an alien planet with a distant parallel past, perhaps to an alternative present.
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Once he began to make purchases, he hoped that additional signifiers such as the kind of credit cards he carried and his ZIP code would assure store clerks that he was a member of the middle class.
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Mixed in with the irony of the artist's vision is the additional historical irony that these works are now taken as signifiers of historical value — hence their central position in the collection of a mega-rich donor.
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Assigning people a generational identity based on an arbitrary birth year cutoff might be silly, but it's a stand-in for bigger signifiers — access to home ownership, ability to pay off student debt, graduating with bright future prospects.
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Lipi engages more directly, seemingly obsessed with a comparison between herself and Anonnya — one work juxtaposes photos from their childhoods, another presents fiberglass castings of their faces side by side, without the gender signifiers of hair or makeup.
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This portion of the two-gallery show emphasizes the importance of the hypnagogoscope approach for Villeglé's work, which consists of constantly disrupting signifiers, an artistic act that I consider part and parcel with a visual art of noise.
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But a decade and a half later, all the signifiers are now mixed up: Supreme has been woven into the fashion firmament, thanks to a series of shrewd partnerships, both in the high-fashion and street-wear worlds.
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Though classic country-western instrumentation and references abound on Wrangled, Presley is anything but a throwback act; she engages with country music traditionalism by standing it on its head, lyrically tweaking (and occasionally scorning) the genre's cultural signifiers.
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Fran was openly and proudly Jewish, in a time when most Jewish characters were still coded as such with distinct mannerisms (think Elaine Benes in Seinfeld) or clear signifiers, like last names (Clueless' Cher Horowitz or Friends' Rachel Green).
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Autophoto, an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier for Contemporary Art in Paris that traces how the car has transformed into a fixture of photography, offers a largely rosy view of our attachment to these longtime signifiers of social status.
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It was not a perfect speech—Streep's argument that without diverse Hollywood "you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts" had two too many signifiers for "poor whites" in it—but it was not a lecture.
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Sports had been associated with fashion before, of course, but the all white of Wimbledon and the navy blue blazers of Ted Turner and a million other sailors were signifiers less of a personal than a certain categorical divide.
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What I would say is we're not going to fall for the "okie dokie," in the sense that somebody could just signal through cultural signifiers and identity that they're down with a particular set of politics or a movement.
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And with this announcement, she's elevated the social-media birth announcement into art, art that's specific to Beyoncé and all the signifiers bound up in that tightly controlled image she's created: motherhood, sex, money, power, and black American womanhood.
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The authors were particularly surprised by people who explained their logo tattoos as signifiers of participation in specific "lifestyles," and by the tattoo-havers' tendency to say that they weren't even thinking of the logos as "corporate symbols" at all.
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Especially given that we all also have the physical signifiers of age to take into account, and that what looks really great in New York, say, or L.A. or Chicago, might look kind of peculiar in the quads of higher learning.
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But the company can and does use various signifiers to group users based on things like the content users interact with, pages they like, or what their language preferences are, which allows advertisers to target ads based on those interests.
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In both Arabic and English, the sign delineates the distinct paths that Muslims and non-Muslims may take in traveling around the area; from the outset, we are presented with signifiers that demarcate a divide between Muslims and non-Muslims.
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At Le Roi Est Mort, one might first be tempted to be impressed by the traditionalist signifiers at play, clues to what some have identified as France's rather thinly veiled conservative longing for power in the face of digital globalization.
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At this time, Trump's casinos were facing competition from the Native-owned enterprises, and like settlers before him, he had an interest in defining fewer Indigenous people by racial signifiers in order to eliminate the gaming rights allowed of sovereign nations.
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And Newsome does not cut any conceptual corners: he is dealing with fraught historical interactions, notably the early 20th-century avant-garde's absorption of African and Oceanic forms, and re-appropriates some of their most visible signifiers as meat and material.
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The arena for the architecture to communicate its intention was in the space between the street and the inside of the cinema hall … In these spaces, signifiers of modernity are deployed as symbols — pretty much like in the architecture of Chandigarh.
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The artists intended it to be left unmaintained until its eventual decomposition into the surrounding desert, as a high-contrast monument to desire and unattainability, and perhaps a reminder of the ultimate transience of even the most powerful social signifiers.
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Brooklyn™ mania reduces the borough's diverse offerings to a generalized style; for artists, this tends to mean that their works become signifiers of the cool and the hip, with their value associated more with semantics than with content or form.
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The décor is a collection of twee, timeworn signifiers for the L train set (think beadboard, yellowing maps, exposed brick and lots of wood), although the Gray Mare is at the southern edge of the East Village's Second Avenue bar crawl.
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"I see these cultural signifiers that let me know you've been to my house, you've been in my neighborhood, you've participated in some of these church affairs, you have that insider knowledge that really speaks to being known," she said.
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" And hip-hop has flirted with country signifiers on and off since the 1980s, whether it was the fringe-outfitted rapper Cowboy from the Furious Five, or Kool Moe Dee's — and later, Will Smith's — excursion to the "Wild Wild West.
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It is also rife with nostalgic cultural signifiers, from arcade games and era-specific movie posters to a shiny Trans Am and a running joke about New Kids on the Block that encapsulates the film's loving teasing of its socially awkward protagonists.
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Her representation of Kampala may fall back on all the usual signifiers of developing-world vibrancy—brick-red roads, brightly patterned textiles, spicy food, energetic music—but it includes a few specifics of slum life which hit harder than typical Disney fare.
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He uses his full arsenal of effects to clutter Alpha with little signifiers of the melting-pot ethos that precipitated its creation, and the high-gloss sheen of digital cinema leaves it looking a touch more futuristic, another step removed from our present.
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But cache in these rural regions of the American South depended not on the trappings of wealth; the careful grooming and fine clothing of the middle and upper classes were perhaps not seen as effeminate, but were certainly not signifiers of manliness.
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In her book Bird By Bird, essayist Anne Lamott wrote at length about the economic and social signifiers that one could find hidden in school lunches, and about what was deemed acceptable for a kid to pull out of his or her lunchbox.
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It used a variety of signifiers, at least a dozen, to figure out who was a government official, including using social media, identifying credit cards tied to institutions like police credit unions, and drawing a "geofence" around government buildings on its maps.
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Because Ocasio-Cortez fails in nearly every way to display the culturally sanctioned political signifiers of blue-collarness, so the logic appears to go, her material circumstances can't ever have been remotely as bad as she has made them out to be.
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A master of aesthetic signifiers, with an ear for melody, he sampled both Lil Wayne and the early-aughts emo-punk band Brand New; he could also rap with the cool fortitude of an Atlanta trap rapper over a minor-chord guitar riff.
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And only a few months later, Jun Takahashi used ruffs and candy colors and ringmaster suiting as the uniform signifiers of a new kind of insurrection in his Undercover show at the Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (a favorite site, not coincidentally, of Mr. McQueen).
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It opens with dizzy ambience and blurry trance synths that sound a little bit like Rustie's underwater explorations, before blistering skyward through chanted vocals, a wonderfully elastic bass line and jungly drum samples—all signifiers of ecstasy and abandon after the woozy exposition.
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Gazing over the wall, it is astonishing to realize how recognizable these images are — even in the relatively low-fidelity context of toast art — and how inundated we have become with famous faces as signifiers, when they once were simply people's faces.
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The arc of his life vindicated his moral critics, conservative and feminist: What began with talk of jazz and Picasso and other signifiers of good taste ended in a sleazy decrepitude that would have been pitiable if it wasn't still so exploitative.
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Over 30 years later, he's leading a support group for other survivors with "extra-dimensional anxiety" that bears some resemblance to the Guilty Remnant in "The Leftovers," minus the cult signifiers of white clothes, chain smoking and an eerie code of silence.
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Whereas teenage girls carrying Fjallraven backpacks and oversized tie-dye shirts would hardly have been notable before, POV parodies turned the look into a costume, something for teenagers to call each other despite the fact that they themselves might share the same signifiers.
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It has the kind of storytelling that you can get lost in — just like you can get lost in the immense and palpable aesthetic pleasure the book takes in objects, in signifiers of tony expensive taste paired with a virtuous middle-class budget.
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Though it takes place barely more than a decade ago, the signifiers of wealth and status of the pre-recession period are a stark contrast to the ones that followed immediately after, providing an unexpected texture to the experience of watching the film.
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The usual (read: clichéd) visual signifiers of the flouncy red dress and fan have been replaced by a sleek, modernist, abstract aesthetic in which the gypsy seducer's tragic tale unfolds through an alluring mix of contemporary ballet with notes of flamenco and pasodoble.
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You listen to rap music from the 90s, and half the lyrics were references to TV shows or commercials, or whatever, different cultural signifiers that meant something to them and to other people who may have had the same experiences as them.
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It made less of a broad impact, but in the wake of Sparxxx's innovations came a wave of artists who effectively identified as country rappers focused on rural storytelling and signifiers — growing up far from cities, partying at mud bogs and so on.
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Jirenga accomplishes a similar task though she keeps some more clear signifiers of mother Africa in her "The City of Saints XIX" (2017) where a dark-skinned woman, again facing away from the viewer, transports a basket on her cloth-covered head.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Earlier this year, the Welsh musician, Cate Le Bon released "Home to You," a dreamy, disorienting piece of psych-pop that probed the meaning of "home" divorced from its usual white picket, flag-waving signifiers.
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Like many other reporters who cover the intersection of radical ideology and social media, I noted the laundry list of signifiers in the awful broadcast: the killer's asides, his gun barrel inscriptions, and his musical choices, that perfectly au courant mix of absurdity and hate.
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The artists, who both grew up in the South — Willie amid a biker culture where the male authority figures were all behind bars; Brent in a rigid Christian home — appear to be excavating their youths in an attempt to extract private truths through personal signifiers.
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They are both exhibitions where I'm staggered by the power of the artist's work, but find that the didactic text attempts to limit my responses to obvious and restricted readings of McMillian's work — full of signifiers that reference domesticity, race, and class, and more.
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Set in 1973, right as the first wave of rock music was starting to give way to something darker and more radical, HBO's latest drama has all the right period signifiers: flared lapels and bell-bottoms, a grimy dive club, a judicious dusting of cocaine.
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Due to the cold, a lot of the modern "rave" signifiers were strangely absent at SnowGlobe; survival mode was key, and I'd go as far as to say that the lack of outlandish outfits and neon-colored everything put the focus back on the music.
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This is a handshake buried under the weight of its own meaninglessness, a black hole of metacommentary in a world where sense sloshes chaotically across a flat surface of signifiers unmoored from any attachment to truth or reason or even an orderly presentation of images.
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In the "Real World" days, the loft—sixty-five hundred square feet of old-school SoHo grandeur, with cast-iron Corinthian columns, mezzanines, and marble floors—was done up with the signifiers of Gen-X communal living, including a pool table and a lava lamp.
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On a sunny early June afternoon, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix is sitting in a coffee shop just a short walk from his Brooklyn home, contemplating the role that Christian signifiers have played in his conceptual metal band Liturgy and his solo electronic efforts as Kel Valhaal.
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In the summer of 1940, after her debacle at Vassar, Vivian moves to New York to live with her aunt, a predictably plucky lesbian who runs a down-at-the-heels theater troupe, and the Old New York signifiers come at us thick and fast.
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The combination of signifiers calls to mind a range of associations, from the subservient jobs deemed suitable for African Americans during Hollywood's "golden age," to the pressures to conform to white expectations as a prerequisite for navigating the nation's political, social, and economic hierarchies.
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Appropriating signifiers from across class lines is, of course, a standard political move used to memorable advantage by, among others, George W. Bush, who successfully masked his patrician origins every time he put on a pair of Wranglers, a cowboy hat and a barn jacket.
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"Hustlers," a semisweet, half-flat cocktail of exposed flesh, fuzzy feminism and high-spirited criminality, overflows with of-the-moment pop-cultural signifiers — Cardi B makes an appearance, and Lizzo does, too — but it also strikes a note of nostalgia for the recent past.
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Thatcher, the silk scarf, which, along with the skirt suit and pussy-bow blouse, became signifiers of the Iron Lady, the woman who put on her absolutely appropriate clothes like armor in her battle to liberate the markets and bring "tough capitalism" to Britain.
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Among its signifiers: big T-shirts, puka shells, candy-colored Fjällräven backpacks, wrists full of scrunchies, sticker-encrusted Hydro Flasks, Crocs, Carmex lip balm, metal straws (save the turtles!), and the catchphrases "sksksk" and "and I oop" (which were co-opted from black queer culture).
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Certainly the lawn jockeys are signifiers of larger vexing problems having to do with race relations in America, yet the gesture doesn't resonate as a fully reasoned response; rather, it is lost among the gossamer of netting, strung beads, and collection of kitschy items.
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And before I get nailed to the meme cross in the skr*mz boards on genre technicalities, let me offer the disclaimer that I might expand the malleable "screamo" umbrella to encompass powerviolence, grindcore, emoviolence, and whatever other dumb signifiers get attached to generally unmoshable hardcore.
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" Rather than suss out these signifiers by themselves, they decided to put out an open call to "people who regularly see contemporary art" — not to submit proposals themselves, but "to suggest materials and ideas that were particularly prevalent in art being made today or in recent years.
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But where Ozawa reduced his art down to pure musical forms to find an opening—like an Olympic athlete competing on innate talent—Murakami rose to fame in part through beating Westerners at their own post-modern game of subtle pop culture reference and tasteful signifiers.
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In No Title (I Was Beginning) (2001), the artist uses the Statue of Liberty as a metaphor for a girl reaching puberty and adulthood, fusing these signifiers with a direct reference to Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes' iconic Bossa Nova ballad The Girl from Ipanema.
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Where racial or cultural prejudices may focus on arbitrary signifiers, the promise of the "points system" is to calculate different human capabilities according to the economistic metaphor of human capital, a concept that originated in the work of Chicago School economist Gary Becker in the 1960s.
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If Robin Thicke hadn't completely fallen apart after "Blurred Lines," he could be making albums like this, collections of blue-eyed soul that lean on the liquid synths of Taylor Swift's "Style" and The Weeknd's Beauty Behind the Madness as signifiers of hip pop c. 2016.
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Blackness in Abstraction features a mix of forty artists'—including Robert Rauschenberg, Carrie Mae Weems, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon and Adam Pendleton—abstract meditations on a hue that exists socially and politically as one of the most charged constructions of identity and signifiers of a condition.
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More than 343 exhibits range from everyday artifacts (a spare key never given to its intended recipient, a mirror that didn't go with an ex's decorating scheme) to signifiers of deeply troubled unions (a pair of silicone breast implants a woman got at her boyfriend's urging).
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Words are more than just signifiers, they hold meaning on their own; according to legend Charles V, a Holy Roman Emperor, used Spanish when he spoke to God, French when he spoke to men, Italian when he spoke to women, and German to converse with his horse.
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A clever yet supremely elegant play with cultural and political signifiers, Mr. Mizrahi's "Desert Storm" is typical of his most interesting designs in that it revolves around a combustive contradiction: an opposition between what soldiers wear in combat zones and what women wear at fashionable parties.
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I saved for months to buy heavy men's Oxford shoes and wore only overalls and became the most devoted They Might Be Giants fan I could possibly be — all signifiers, I hoped, that I was smart and quirky, and most of all objective, like all my classmates.
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If there was any use of "signifiers of urban america", this was purely down to the fact that I loved music which had that, I've been playing that music for over 20 years, supporting that music even when it wasn't in the spotlight or any way popular.
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It's not worth the risk of having the story then get shifted by other people who perhaps just perceive themselves as somebody who's a watchdog for certain signifiers or certain elements of the culture and that their job is to be on the watch for this.
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The sea of scissors, coconuts, bottles, and dozens of hoarded objects blend into one another and become part of a hulking mass, occasionally broken up by pristine and unfitting commercial signifiers like a Uniqlo shopping bag and a luxury Pro Line blender filled with green juice.
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It's in a long line of anti-haters singles from Swift, but this time she's returning fire not just at her own detractors but dedicating a significant portion of the song to taking on homophobes... very cheerfully, in keeping with all other recent Swift mood signifiers.
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Pure genre films are the exception, but they're present — Seijun Suzuki's "Kanto Wanderer" (1963) is a B-movie yakuza entertainment, but the small-time scrambling of the gangsters, the nostalgia for a more prosperous and chivalrous era and the harborside Shinagawa setting are all shitamachi signifiers.
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"Good Dreams, Bad Dreams (What Was Sub-Literature?)" (1996) features panels painted by professional sign painters (by the hands of an artist but not the artist), that reproduce the titles of pulp novels, mixing two kinds of signifiers to create sign posts of mass market American culture.
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In these two specific pieces, Lewis and Báez prod at the continual wreckage and violence of European "civilizing" projects and so-called modernity as each artist extends her reach in the U.S. Though both Dominican-born, neither Báez nor Lewis create art that offers easy national(ist) signifiers.
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Combining images with text and captions printed into the photographs, Fisher consciously employed semiotics (the study of signs and symbols) to deconstruct some of the codes used by the San Francisco gay community to find and select sexual partners: Traditionally western societies have utilized signifiers for non-accessibility.
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The color is weighted down with too many signifiers to list here but a few come to mind in viewing Syms's work, including Caesar, United States military honors, and Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple, which explores the lives and status of African American women in the 53s South.
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People tend to think of violin music as serious and worthy of respect — Hindman notes that one of the most common signifiers for "genius" in a movie is to have the genius character play the violin — but respect is not something that is generally on offer to young girls.
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It was everything that is annoying about the "social justice internet"—the posing, the posturing, the self-policing to make sure all the signifiers match up to form the correct projection of equality-mindedness (never mind that McGorry tweeted "#NoHomo" after appearing at a pride parade in 2014).
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There's a lovely scene where the two watch TV and crack lame jokes, but it almost seems as if audiences are meant to impose their own idealization of male friendship, based on their identification of Pitt and DiCaprio with their personas and signifiers like cracking open cold ones together.
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Many white folks in the mainstream left — myself included — increasingly function in terms of making sure we follow the right rules and nod toward the right cultural signifiers: shopping at the right stores and watching the right TV shows and saying the right things in the right way.
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It's difficult to try to write about it like a conventional fashion show, as Michele eschews all the signifiers we fashion hacks grasp after — inspirations, muses, specific time periods — in favor of a focus not on a "look" but on individual items, each as important as the other.
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The blending of identity with cultural signifiers via avatar is, unsurprisingly, central to several the exhibition's interactive works; Rachel Rossin's Skinsuits VR experience plugs participants into an abstract landscape where the main action of your character is to continually shed its skin, revealing new layers of character skins.
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There are three smaller troll figures, including "Zack," that seem to be boys, and there are three counterparts that seem to be girls — but you quickly realize that such crude assumptions of gender based on signifiers like names don't work here, because everyone is simply and happily a boi.
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Made in collaboration with architectural designer Terrence Schroeder, the darkened room possesses a series of traditionally masculine elements and signifiers like a blue leather casting couch, an idle cigar cutter, and bottles of whiskey, punctuated with artificial hair extensions, functioning as feminine 'growths' of sorts throughout the highly male space.
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The follower factory worker begins to try to emulate the Insta star, but to no avail, because, it seems a) his city and person are outside what the culture economy deems 'cool' (ie lacks adequate signifiers of gross opulence) and b) he can't afford to buy likes as his hero can.
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The employee explained that YouTube's thumbnail monitoring technology — which, at present, is not as thorough as its video monitoring technology — didn't catch bestiality thumbnails as they don't necessarily have the same characteristics as typical pornography (often those in the videos are mostly clothed and the videos lack certain signifiers like skin).
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And since I always enjoy my visits to the Tate Modern, my plan was to go see the exhibition from a critical perspective, maybe even write a review pointing out how certain aspects of the work function as signifiers of Picasso's misogyny (and what a long review that would be).
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J. Cole's album 2014 Forest Hills Drive (which was technically released in December 2014, but went Platinum in 2015) was hailed as a classic by many hip-hop fans, simply because J. Cole took pains to load the album with signifiers that tied it to beloved rap records of yore.
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" The judge pointed to a recent A.B.A.-sponsored study, "First Chairs at Trial: More Women Need Seats at the Table," which concludes that stereotypical sexist remarks to female lawyers are "among the more overt signifiers of the discrimination, both stated and implicit, that contributes to their underrepresentation in the legal field.
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We could talk all day about how the genre might be hitting a wall, having its signifiers co-opted by rap, where the whole thing can go from here, but for now let us talk about the band that does rock music best because they do rock music the dumbest.
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Leggings also function differently for different age groups: for Gen Y, they tend to be lifestyle signifiers that have more to do with health and activity than, say, everyday workwear; for Gen Z-ers, who largely reject uniformity and traditional labels, they are simply a basic, the equivalent of jeans.
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As I would soon discover, he is one of a handful of European producers specializing in house and techno—forms that originated out of minority communities in the American Midwest—who I would argue have been appropriating what appear to be signifiers of the black experience, presumably as a marketing device.
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When she's performing in the video, you would never know because she's wearing nothing that would give you any of those signifiers but yet it kind of proves that we are all suffering at some point in our lives, and we've all gone through something that made us feel ashamed and alone.
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In other works, the picture seems to simultaneously acknowledge and contradict the word, as in "abgrenzen" ("delimit"), where a cyclone fence near the top of the sheet is all but lost in a detailed landscape dominated by a riverbank, where a moored canoe bobs in the water — signifiers of freedom and escape.
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I have a number of theories about the divergence, but the one I keep coming back to is the notion that smartphones (and computers, in a sort of general sense) have gone from being exciting signifiers of the future to well-understood parts of daily life that we simply take for granted.
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Kraft has perhaps even less admirable motivations for getting in between McDaniels and the Colts: You hear a lot about how New England is a model NFL franchise, phrases like "The Patriot Way" and Belichick's vaunted "culture of winning" are tossed around as signifiers of a virtuous organization that has some integrity.
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She had an official Snapchat account with a "Yaaas, Hillary!" logo that was also a T-shirt, a posed #yas photo with the stars of Broad City, custom Hillary Bitmoji, ironic cross-stitch art, and other signifiers of "yas" culture that's since become emblematic of a certain kind of blinkered white feminism.
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The objective wasn't to let any of the so-called narrative calcify into an overt story feeling, but rather to provide just enough in the way of recurring signifiers so that maybe somebody goes home after the show and makes one of those conspiracy theory maps, with all the pins connected by strings.
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The idea that a person's name, voice, dress—or any element in a web of subtle and yet crushing signifiers—could change the course of their life is double-edged, suggesting both that you are free to reinvent yourself and that, should this task prove harder than it looks, the failure is entirely your own.
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The Spanish-language HBO series, which premiered Friday, follows a band of horror-loving weirdos living somewhere in Mexico (it seems, based on the accents and other signifiers) who create a business out of building spooky sets for people trying to scare the ever-loving crap out of people for a variety of reasons.
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The signifiers have changed—though a good butt will still get you very far—but far from transcending the pettiness of the girls' locker room as adults promised me I would, I have come to understand that popularity is a darkly powerful force at play in basically any endeavor that involves interacting with another human.
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Blazquez's photo montage, "SOS En ABQ, My New Mexican Signifiers," functions as a visual flashpoint for our most challenging cultural, economic, and political issues — a handgun, a knife, a rosary, Suboxone, and a wallet-sized photo of a child's face overlay the sunny yellow cloth of the state flag, encircling a blood-red Zia.
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The writer and critic Masha Gessen praised "The Blizzard" in The New York Times Book Review in 2016, noting that aspects of it posed "formidable challenges for the translator" — for example, early in the novel Mr. Sorokin uses several nouns in a sentence that Russian readers would instantly recognize as sentimental signifiers of rural life.
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What a reader has to conclude coming to the end of the poem, is that meaning is a fugitive thing, sometimes here, and sometimes there, winking in and out of existence, and perhaps most recognizable in the moments when it is entangled with the signifiers it has long been associated with: written language, human faces.
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But even when they weren't overtly embracing 60s signifiers, Soundgarden delivered hippy-dippy sentiment with heavy-metal menace: "Hands All Over" was certainly fearsome enough to make a humdrum Michael Keaton psycho-killer flick a little more intense, but when Cornell wails, "you're gonna kill your mother," he's actually singing about the ecological devastation of our Earth.
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This is partly due to these threats, but their signifiers don't quite loom over Life in My Pocket; rather, they're part and parcel of the experience, that sad truism that police frequent playgrounds, break up the debauchery of youth with abandon — and especially that of black children, denying them the small luxury of bruises and singsong.
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Some of the science fiction flourishes in the new HBO miniseries Years and Years are deft-but-familiar technological signifiers of a near future—a smart speaker named Señor has telephonic and IoT skills far beyond those of Alexa, a teenager wears a holographic Snapchat filter mask to breakfast, self-heating school lunches have vat-grown meat entrées.
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She's become one of the signifiers of Twin Peaks that pop culture uses as a shorthand for the show: There's cherry pie, damn good coffee, people talking backwards in the Red Room, Laura Palmer wrapped in plastic, and then Audrey, standing in the middle of the diner in her schoolgirl sweater and red lipstick, dreamily swaying to jazz.
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Over the course of this year, I've written in this column about hazy beatmakers who use geographical signifiers to interrogate rising tides of nationalism worldwide; about noise producers adopting classic rock tropes to create a newly warped Americana; and about a host of composers who are remapping everyday experiences through the use of musique concrète techniques.
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But just as The Lord of the Rings' Frodo and Sam represent a thread of "hopepunk" through the grimmer world in which they walk, the storyline of Game of Thrones has steadily built the character of Jon Snow, with all his allegorical "chosen one" signifiers, into its literal hope for the future stability of the realm.
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But it extended beyond that, too: by the delivery of your news in an entirely new way, complete with new and obliterating signifiers of authority and truth; by constant confirmation that, yes, the media really is just people saying things; and, finally, by opportunistic insinuations that the level of deception by news organizations knows no bounds.
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Hal Fischer's perfectly-pitched 22018 photograph "Signifiers for a Male Response" briefly explains a few classic sartorial signals, like a handkerchief worn on the left or keys on the right, once used among gay men, while an equally lovely 21975 collage by Frida Orupabo comprises images of women's body parts cut out and pinned back together with delicate violence.
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While in the architecture of Chandigarh the organization of space and the use of materials inherently utilize distinctly modernist tools, in the cinema halls, as the basic structural organization of space is pre-determined, modernism is reduced to iconography — a pastiche of free floating signifiers that create a narrative of travel into other places and times.
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Resetting MOCA's contemporary gallery as the interior of a New England suburban ranch house, the project presents an amalgam of visual encounters, from architectural models to domestic signifiers (a newspaper-covered window, an open doorway with symbolic Chinese décor), where each "room" invites visitors to examine the complexity of values and regulations that shape contemporary living.
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Despite The Builders Association's unflinching history of media-ornamented staging, the significance of their video content is reinvented with each production: With Sontag: Reborn, the projections provide a litany of images racing by, acknowledging the excess of signifiers consumed by a mind that would go on to internalize them, process them, and regurgitate them as iconic writing.
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If Massey is prepared to challenge the provenance of Cranbrook students in Detroit (whose graduates include artist Nick Cave and Massey herself), one has to question her sense of entitlement to the visual signifiers of Southern culture, such as gingham which has roots variously attributed to Malay genggang and a town named Guingamp in Brittany, France.
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It's also compelling that, given their bright red coloration, the eye is drawn first to the figurines, an involuntary action mirroring the knee-jerk response that racial signifiers induce even among the best-intentioned — a moral failing genetically linked to the original sin of slavery, and another reminder, as if we needed one, of the long road left to travel.
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And while Burnham roots her story in the signifiers of our current moment (late night Instagram k-holes, school shooting drills), mostly Eighth Grade captures the universally relatable small-yet-potent dramas of simply being 13, like showing up at a birthday pool party when you're friends with no one, and learning to navigate attention — wanted and alarmingly not — from older teenagers.
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As thought balloons exposing the preoccupations of a young, married couple, these signifiers (quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Moby-Dick, silly photo-booth portraits, and a minimalist poem by a teenage girl, among other private moments and public-facing statements) take their cue from the picture-messaging and bright surfaces of Pop, while looking beyond the hollow, consumerist side of contemporary life.
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Gender, race, sexuality, class, age, religion, and other signifiers fall by the wayside if you're able to rent a nice-but-not-that-nice hotel room, and that allows Room 104 to play host to everyone from beleaguered babysitters to MMA fighters just scraping by and hoping to get a big payout to an elderly couple celebrating over 50 years of marriage.
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It's sweet to imagine LA as a place where everyone has the space to be themselves, a harmlessly charming land of sunshine and food trucks and good intentions, but it's frustrating to see the texture of your city — its streets and landmarks — being thrown up onscreen as in-joke signifiers removed from the actual civic context within which they function.
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Mainstream society has long had an outsized interest in what white, wealthy people are doing and buying, and generational stereotypes are, in fact, often based around them: The two most pernicious signifiers of millennials, for instance, are avocado toast and being entitled, despite the fact that it's the first generation in modern history to end up worse off financially than their parents.
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Women who were attuned to aspirational signifiers like the right hairdresser or, as the article said, "that little jewel of a manicurist" — these included a copywriter from Cosmopolitan, a filmmaker's assistant and the wife of a television personality — were drawn to places like Alex & Walter on West 57th Street, where they might hang from rings like circus performers or real gymnasts.
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The film's hyperlinked story, Soderbergh-like editing, and implementation of colored lens filters as emotional and geographical signifiers, and a now-famous, twelve-minute improvised police chase scene through the Dharavi slums, which incidentally inspired the opening sequence of Slumdog Millionaire, caught the attention of critics and audiences leading the film to being hailed as a watershed moment for a different kind of cinema in Bollywood.
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If the canvases of Ringgold and Thomas embody a counter-narrative representing a clean break with Modernism's colonizing obsessions, the Kenyan-born artist Michael Armitage has adopted, up to a point, the aesthetic heritage of Western art history, answering its theft of African forms and signifiers with a hybrid vision that affirms the porousness of ethnocultural borders and, in effect, co-opts the traditional hierarchies of power.
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It also fingered the metal horns hand gesture, the peace symbol (?), the anarchy symbol, and a whole list of potential tattoo designs (five of which I currently have inked on my body—oops) as signifiers of a youth gone wild; even Dungeons & Dragons got dragged into it, with the excellently named group Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons occupying prime real estate within the document's pages.
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Khalid's songs occupy a quasi-narrative world where modern signifiers are incorporated into familiar situations, as in "I'll keep your number saved cause I hope one day you'll get the sense to call me," or "Send me your location/let's focus on communication/cause I just need the time and place to come through," with the idiomatic "come through" as striking as the phone reference.
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Of course, the city is known for far more than these obvious cultural signifiers, but if we're being totally honest this was our first visit, so our minds were filled with little more than a few Wings songs and the promise that Red Bull Music Academy had planned enough amazing events in the city to make our stay in the city a memorable one.
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And while it's undoubtedly true that rampant overdevelopment and real estate speculation are making it hard for everyone but the very rich to get a toehold here, what draws us relative newcomers to Brooklyn aren't just "the fixed-gear, fair-traded and cruelty-free" signifiers he sneers at — that may be what's sold as BrooklynTM, but it's not what makes people decide where to build their actual lives.
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"No one should assume anything about the use of such a gesture unless there are other unmistakable white supremacist signifiers in that context as well," Mark Pitcavage, an expert on right-wing extremism at the Anti-Defamation League, tweeted, adding: Out of all the things you should be legitimately concerned about regarding the Senate confirmation hearings in Washington, DC, today for Judge Kavanaugh & SCOTUS, handshakes and handsigns ought not be among them.
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Other similarities abound: the use of pictorial framing devices, such as the illusionistic, sperm-filled border of Munch's "Madonna" lithographs (1895/1902); the forks, knives, and spoons that both artists employ as signifiers of consumption and mortality; the pairing, on adjacent walls, of Johns' "Dancers on a Plane" (1980) and Munch's "The Dance of Life" (1925), with their comparable value range and coloration (dark purples and greens enlivened by white, red, and ocher).
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This isn't far from what Theodor Adorno meant when he talked about the "fetish-character" in music, the way that scraps and phrases of great classical pieces are isolated from their context in the work itself, atomized and commodified, so that they can come to stand for "high culture," a chimera that in practice wasn't much more than a crutch for the ego, a way of looking down at other people who don't fetishize the grand signifiers of art.
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While, on Pink, in that same book, you beguile us with yet one more instance of the shapeshifting I've applauded: To the objection that her work is not a valid contribution to the philosophical tradition which has taken up love as an object of inquiry, I'd simply say something obvious, which is that pop is for many of us a prerequisite course in the regime of signs by which we understand what these signifiers, like love and hate, even mean.
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Like the "basic" girls of the mid to early 2010s, the VSCO girl label slaps any teenager with an oversized T-shirt and a scrunchie with a dozen other signifiers that may or may not apply to her: That she's vapid and boring, that she's too concerned with how her pictures look even though they look just like everybody else's, and that in trying so hard to not look like she's trying, she becomes the biggest try-hard of all.
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These plaster casts, created through a preliminary and highly masochistic process of silicon body molding without the benefit of Vaseline, are integrated with a series of generic domestic objects (IKEA bathroom bench, body pillow, shower bar), as well as apparel items that are signifiers within gay culture (Calvin Klein thong, leather moto jacket, black unitard, Timberland boots), and bits of glam, like embedded glitter, a bisected disco ball, and clusters of natural crystals that seem to grow from a neck or chest concavity.
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As I wrote in my review of the show, "Cockman is the arch-American demagogue, the embodiment of jingoism, racism, and sexism," a caricature composed of a penis for a nose and a ball sack for cheeks — identical to but predating Philip Guston's Nixon drawings — "derived from the graffiti Bernstein uncovered during her excursions into the men's rooms of Yale University, where she attended graduate school in the mid-1960s": But, then again, Bernstein's images, as made manifest in this show, are signifiers that have less to do with a specific moment than with the perpetual cycles of war, power, sex, and death.
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