September 2011
65 posts
“People within the EU institutions and in the media dealing with EU affairs often use ‘Eurojargon’ words and expressions that they alone understand. Eurojargon can be very confusing to the general public, which is why we have written this “plain language guide” to help you. Please note: this guide does not include purely technical or legal terms, or jargon used in only one language.”
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A plain language guide to Euro-jargon
“In the matter of the horrifying, he had form. Guernica (1937), then in the United States, was already a cause célèbre: “the Last Judgment of our age” or “Bolshevist art controlled by the hand of Moscow”, it was gaining in iconic status with each passing decade. At the time of his outburst on the role of the artist, he was working on the most powerful political painting he ever made, The Charnel House (1944-45), the pièce de résistance of the Tate exhibition. Picasso himself said that the work was affected by revelations of the real-life charnel houses of the holocaust. In this instance there is no reason to doubt him.”
—Picasso’s politics | Art and design | The Guardian
“A body is the scene of exchanges between inside and outside, between the interiors of the organism and its environment. The organism has a direction given to it in its environment by its need to capture energy and excrete waste. It is oriented along the axis of its digestive tract, moving toward what it devours and away from what it excretes. From this movement the organism also derives the material basis of its existence in time. That toward which it moves is its future (nature is the future of making) and that which it excretes is its past.”
—WHAT TO DO WITH DESIGN AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES? « Atelier Tipografic 2
“The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), an opposition group, tested the city-state’s authoritarianism by launching a podcast on its Web site that denounces the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) ahead of the country’s 40th anniversary Independence Day celebrations On the podcast, SDP secretary-general Chee Soon Juan spoke about opaque government practices, bloated cabinet ministers’ salaries and other chancy topics in a nine-minute recording. “The podcast is a way for the [SDP] to bypass the state-controlled media in Singapore,” Chee declared in a statement. He encouraged his countrymen to use podcasting to “breach the control of the media by the PAP government.”
—Singapore Rebel Urges Free-Speech Podcasting - Forbes.com (August 2005)
“Danny the mascot marks a change in strategy for SDP.
Once notorious in the eyes of the public for being a nuisance through its campaign of civil disobedience in the last decade, it seems the SDP now wants to win over the electorate by replacing its fiery brand of politics with something more friendly and fuzzy instead.
Such ‘branding’ of politics is hardly a recent phenomenon, but it’s something less talked about in public as most politician would rather stick to their policies and programs.” —Yes, we (look like we) can | New Nation
Once notorious in the eyes of the public for being a nuisance through its campaign of civil disobedience in the last decade, it seems the SDP now wants to win over the electorate by replacing its fiery brand of politics with something more friendly and fuzzy instead.
Such ‘branding’ of politics is hardly a recent phenomenon, but it’s something less talked about in public as most politician would rather stick to their policies and programs.” —Yes, we (look like we) can | New Nation
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• Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata, or meaning
• Syntactics: Relations among signs in formal structures
• Pragmatics: Relation between signs and the effects they have on the people who use them
” —Semiotics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The word politics comes from the Greek word Πολιτικά (politika), modeled on Aristotle’s “affairs of the city”, the name of his book on governing and governments, which was rendered in English mid-15 century as Latinized “Polettiques”.[4] Thus it became “politics” in Middle English c. 1520s (see the Concise Oxford Dictionary). The singular politic first attested in English 1430 and comes from Middle French politique, in turn from Latin politicus,[5] which is the latinisation of the Greek πολιτικός (politikos), meaning amongst others “of, for, or relating to citizens”, “civil”, “civic”, “belonging to the state”,[6] in turn from πολίτης (polites), “citizen”[7] and that from πόλις (polis), “city”.[8]”
—Politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
