Focal Vocabulary Index : Lexical Items 2013
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13-01-0105: STUDIO 13-01-0003: FOR 13-01-0005: PROPOSITIONAL 13-01-0006: CINEMA 14-03-0175: : 18-07-0001: FOCAL 14-04-0148: ONE 13-01-0045: VOCABULARY 16-06-0019: STAR 15-02-0007: INDEX 15-09-0002: PRESS 14-03-0175: : 18-07-0002: LEXICAL 17-06-0040: ITEMS 15-09-0048: 2013 13-03-0041: – 17-21-0005: 2018 studio for propositional cinema: focal vocabulary propositional studio for items 2013–2018: index: lexical onestar press HARRISON_COVER.indd 1 30/10/2018 10:01 13-03-0039: AS 13-01-0065: LANGUAGE 13-01-0027: IS 13-03-0008: OUR 14-02-0016: HOUSE 14-09-0021: UNDER 18-07-0003: SIEGE 14-03-0175: : SPC_OSP_INT.indd 1 10/30/18 10:59 AM 17-01-0289: LEGAL 13-04-0010: & 16-16-0009: DISTRIBUTIONAL 14-18-0049: CONDITIONS 14-03-0175: : SPC_OSP_INT.indd 2 10/30/18 10:59 AM SPC_OSP_INT.indd 3 10/30/18 10:59 AM This License Agreement concerns Lexical Items as registered in the Focal 3. Title Protocol Vocabulary Index of Studio for Propositional Cinema, and outlines the legal and procedural conditions regarding their transfer and use. Legal possession When an agreement is publicly exhibited by the Licensee, Studio for of such documents acknowledges a binding sole license agreement between Propositional Cinema must be credited as the author of the work see 3.1). If the Licensee and Studio for Propositional Cinema, in perpetuity, and grants multiple Items are acquired to construct Lexical Structures, each Item shall the Licensee full rights for the use and display of the Item(s) thereof. Studio be listed in the order in which it appears, preceded by the title of the Lexical for Propositional Cinema retain rights for all future use and display of these Structure (see 3.2). Items, within an agreement to publicly acknowledge the Licensee upon each occasion. 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Concrete and Conditional Items are subject to an exclusive license, whereas Further Lexical Items will be added to the Index as they are used to construct Connective Items are non-exclusive and can be acquired only within larger new works. All Lexical Items existing or inventible within the communicational Lexical Structures constructed with Concrete and/or Conditional Items, in world are potential materials with which to construct descriptions of or order to bind them for use within a mutually agreed linguistic structure proposals for the material world in which they function. (see 2.1). Each License is produced as offset prints on US Legal sized paper and includes the name of the Item and its License Agreement. Three copies of each document are printed: one for the record of the Licensee acquiring the item, one for the record of the Licensor (Studio for Propositional Cinema), and one for the record of the brokering party. The printing plate used to produce the License is the property of the Licensee, and is considered the publicly displayable index signifying the transaction. SPC_OSP_wCOVER.indd 6 10/31/18 12:24 AM SPC_OSP_INT.indd 5 10/30/18 10:59 AM Endnotes Credit for Connective words shall be written as follows: Studio for Propositional Cinema 1.1. In the field of anthropology, the term ‘focal vocabulary’ is used to Focal Vocabulary Index (Lexical Item #[inventory number]: [LEXICAL ITEM]) describe a set of terms used within an individual language to describe the [year of item entry]/[year of project start (always 2018)] /[year of agreement] same object, activity, or phenomenon, especially one that is of heightened offset printed license agreement, four pages, each 35.5 x 21.6 cm; silver ink on importance within an individual culture or group. Traditionally used to offset printing plate, 74 x 60 cm describe multiple articulations of one thing, Studio for Propositional Cinema unique has “borrowed” or “misappropriated” this term to describe a broader approach to an entire linguistic system, with each word categorized into one aspect of 3.2 Credit for Lexical Structures shall be written as follows: the world and/or culture in which we exist, with each constituting the contexts in which we see and are seen. Studio for Propositional Cinema [with (name of co-author [if applicable])] Lexical Structure: [COMPLETE TEXT IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE] 1.2. Each Lexical Item has been catalogued with a chronological inventory [year of construction] number marking the year of first use, an index to the occasion on which it first Focal Vocabulary Index (Lexical Item #[inventory number]: [LEXICAL ITEM]), appeared, and order of appearance therein. 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This category includes units such of Licensee] as “GASOLINE”, “CINEMATOGRAPHY”, and “TENDERNESS”. Conditional units denote the conditions within which the concrete elements 3.4. Material credit shall be written as follows: operate and which affect our perception of and operation within them. This category includes units such as “HYPOTHETICAL”, “BUREAUCRACY”, Studio for Propositional Cinema and “PUBLISHING”. Connective units are those that allow us to link the [title] Conditional and Concrete elements in order to articulate the relationships [year] between them and between them and ourselves. This category includes units [materials], Lexical Item(s) licensed from [name of licensee])] such as “INTO”, “&”, and “THEREFORE”. [dimensions] etc. 2.1. 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