as testament to saussure and structuralism, i magically summon the powers of the surrealists. take the automatic writing techniques of soupault and breton, not exactly something radically new at all. they wrote les champ magnetiques jointly finishing a chapter a day. they rejected the "arbitrary" meanings assigned to the "signified" objects in search of... well, something else that i'll just say lies beneath the surface. it was more of a means to reaching what was once previously unknown to the author. think of a sought out, thought out, systematic form of negative capability.
exquisite corpse was another technique used to liberate the imagination and rid us of the shackles of a "syntagmatic chain". it is sort of game yet it is inquiry-based, think mad libs. endeavors to find new meanings through word, or maybe just nonsense depending on how you look at it.
czech filmmaker jan svankmajer's dimensions of dialogue,watch both parts. if someone could offer up a compelling synthesis of this short i'll be more than willing to buy them a coffee. it's on you tube.
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With your examples, aren't you suggesting that something "real" lies beneath the surface and that language is ill-equipped to get at that meaning? Realize that structuralism's view of language is antithetical to this view.
rereading my post i realize that i wrote that a little funky. i did have something else in mind.
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