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sonsign

noun

Etymology

Blend of sonic + sign.

  1. derived from signum
  2. derived from signare
  3. derived from en
  4. inherited from seġnian — “to mark; sign”
  5. inherited from signen
  6. compounded as sonsign — “sonic + sign”

Definitions

  1. Particularly in Gilles Deleuze's cinematic philosophy, a pure sound that exists…

    Particularly in Gilles Deleuze's cinematic philosophy, a pure sound that exists independently of any immediate action or narrative progression.

    • Opsigns and sonsigns are direct presentation of time.
    • By presenting purely optical and sound situations in which no action is involved, opsigns and sonsigns place time at the centre of the cinematic image.
    • Thus, instead of what Deleuze had described as perception-images, affection-images, action-images, and mental images (all types of movement-image), there are now “opsigns” and “sonsigns” which resist movement-image differentiation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sonsign. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA