0368 - Stylization - 2024.10.21

Comic!

Comment:

The stylized aleph on Zoa's shirt and on various pieces of garbage is not an especially difficult symbol to interpret, but Lee's media literacy is perhaps not as strong as they think it is.

Transcript:

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0368– 2167/07/07/11:21- sidewalk
Zoa: Well, it’s not like it’s a secret secret. It’s a stylized version of an aleph.
LC: An olive?
Zoa: Aleph. It’s a letter in the Hebrew alphabet.
Zoa: Or aleph-bet. Whichever.
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LC: So it’s some Hebrew writing?
Zoa: No, it’s a picture of some Hebrew writing. There’s a difference. Hence the stylization.
LC: What does the writing that this is a picture of say, then?
Zoa: It doesn’t say anything. It’s literally a silent letter.
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LC: Ohhh, I think I get it. It’s a picture of a silence, right? Like a rest in some sheet music. So it means “don’t talk about this”!
LC: That’s why you consider it a picture of some writing and not writing itself, because writing would be a form of speech, whereas a picture is just… observing that the silence exists!
LC: It’s like doodling someone with tape over their mouth. Technically, you didn’t say “shut up”, you just created art that’s open to interpretation, so there’s plausible deniability!
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LC: Is that right? Did I get it?
Zoa: Not even a little bit did you get it, no.
LC: Oh. So are we-
Zoa: Cab’s here. You should put your boots on.
LC: Right.
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