Pure Beauty social
The CODE-X series catalogs a vast codex of source codes (aka “signs”) extracted from past audits.
The object of study in semiotics is not the signs but rather a general theory of signification; the goal of each “audit” is to build a model demonstrating how meaning is produced and received within a category or cultural territory. Signs on their own, therefore, only become truly revelatory and useful once we’ve sorted them into thematic complexes, and the complexes into codes, and the codes into a meaning map. We call this process “thick description”; the Code-X series is thin description.
“GET SILLY” NORM: Get way, way outside of your everyday POV.
“GET SILLY” FORMS: Far-out — but with a sly, self-deprecating, humorous twist. Use of googly eyes and flipping a photo upside-down — “stupid,” low-tech yet witty way to activate vs. this code while poking fun at it too. Silly scenes of people doing ordinary stuff — making juice, gardening, etc. — when suddenly the cannabis takes effect.