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03/22/2004 Archived Entry: "spirit of detroit"

For the Detroit class tomorrow, two images we should probably work with regarding Barthes' "Myth Today":

and

And if we have time, this one too (not related to the "Spirit of Detroit" statue, but interesting still):

"Myth has in fact a double function; it points out and it notifies, it makes us understand something and it imposes it on us" (117). Maybe we can find a way to understand how these images do all of this, and how such writing can help us produce a neologism to better explain the "sign" we create when we construct a mythology of Detroit.