Starring the Star (2)

"*ACT. "separating": act of breaking up the text into blocks of signification. **SEM. "minor earthquake", "blocks of signification": Assuming the metaphor given by Barthes, the minor earthquake caused by nature becomes what breaks up the text into blocks of signification. Text takes on natural connotation. ***REF. "signification": Refers to assumed knowledge of the signified and the signifier."

*&**REF. "Barthes": French literary theorist and philosopher, "Text": original manuscript upon which analysis is based. ***REF. "signified", "signifier". ***HEM. "REF.": How does something become a cultural code?