http://th-rough.eu/taxonomy/term/292/0 en http://th-rough.eu/writers/prouse-eng/state-connotation <span class='print-link'></span><div class="rteright"> <em>This text derives from a conversation with </em><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/campagna-eng/mystery-advertising-and-city-future">Federico Campagna</a></div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <div class="rtejustify"> A common criticism of contemporary capitalism is that the financial industry has completely decoupled capital from the materiality of production. The crisis in Europe has achieved such epic proportions because the creation of wealth was no longer inextricably linked to the labour of workers in the eurozone but could be amplified by complex algorithms of a computerised speculation. However there has also been a twin decoupling that has taken place alongside the rise of financial industry from the 1980&#39;s; a race to the bottom of signification which has seen a wedge driven between signifier and signified. The rise within advertising of a pure aesthetic of connotation which has created a feedback loop that engulfs the entire cultural sphere.</div> <div class="rtejustify"> &nbsp;</div> <p><a href="http://th-rough.eu/writers/prouse-eng/state-connotation" target="_blank">read more</a></p> prouse-eng advertising Baudrillard semiotics social network English Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:06:48 +0000 Robert Prouse 252 at http://th-rough.eu