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How to Say the Non-dit; Disclosing World in Neo-Realist Film

By Stephan Pollan, 7 April 1999

Talk of the non-dit and its opposite, the dit, implies a linguistic paradigm in which
meaning is constructed around a speaker and
a receiver. The non-dit exists only within the communicable, that is, within symbolization. The non-dit can refuse symbolization but it cannot move outside it. It can refuse but it cannot transcend communication.

Literacy

By Julie Buckner, 30 November 1999

According to the American Heritage College Dictionary, the primary definition of a literate person is “One who can read and write.” How does one interpret such a general statement? To test this in a strictly literal sense, let’s say that I can read aloud with a certain degree of accuracy a sentence typed across this [...]