Content, pictures and Normativity

AGUILERA MARIELA

Cagliari

Conferencia; Normative Drawings And Deontic Artifacts; 2016

Fondazione di Sardegna

Upon the analysis of different pictorial mediums, I will criticize the dichotomical distinction between icons and sentences. The analysis suggests the existence of differences of degree between pictorial and linguistic system. However, I argue, that these differences imply interesting features on the content of pictorial and linguistic representation. The problem about the nature and structure of the content of pictorial representations is particularly important for the question of normativity since it is intimately related i) to the universality in which satisfaction conditions of a norm operate; ii) the domain of objects that can be subject to a norm; iii) and to the way in which different forms of representational mediums interact in a prescriptive manner.