At the Inauguration Ceremony of the Academic Year, we are all sitting in the stalls, row after row, all dressed up in black or dark blue, forming long lines of dark characters. Then, four persons enter the room and sit down at a desk on stage. The Rector, the Dean, and two Vice Deans. The first one is wearing a red robe, red gloves, and a red hat, the others are dressed in electric blue.
They are seated in the middle ... surrounded by black lines. I would call them living emojis.
The point is, as Carl Schmitt has noticed in his book about Roman Catholicism, that certain figures represent something otherwise not perceptible, as the priest rests individual person, but is, during mass, at the same time God,
Rector and Deans are representations of authority and of Science, I suggest, and that is why they have to look like emojis.
What do emojis stand for? They are no individuals, but in their combinations they get near to ndividuality. Are they hence representing something lie emotion as such? Human warmth amidst of black lines?
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