Game and method: suggestions for fragile semiotics

Abstract

There have been, in history, several proponents of the method, from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas, from Descartes to Greimas, yet it will not seem irreverent to think that they were all very optimistic, or very lucky, that they enjoyed good health, or that they were blessed with a certain dullness. By dullness we do not mean stupidity here, since some of the brightest minds in human history have just been mentioned, nor do we mean Barthes's "dull sense", but rather the semantic opposite of "acute".