Text:

Please Do Not Smoke Here.
This Means You.

Explication:

The text finds its origins in a relationship between the individual and the community, or "society" as it were, within which a "smoker" experiences the act of smoking.

If we examine the text more closely, we find it applies not only to "the other," that is to say, the individuals who may smoke "here," but to the actual person, in this case, a "smoker," who may be in a physical and intellectual manner, interacting with the text, that is to say, reading it.

Further, one must examine the "here." What location can "here" be said to signify? Upon examination, one must conclude "here" is a nexus of non-linear or two-dimensional [flat] "space," as well as the linear "space" which may be referred to as "pedestrian transit vectors." Within this narrowly defined, yet all-encompassing "here," one cannot ignore the presence of individual people who are "here," although "here" in a manner very much grounded in the temporal mode. For example, "here" one must find individuals existing "all the time," "some" times, and those who can only be said to be experiencing the "trans-here" experience, that is to say, dashing in to use the toilet.

Now one sees that in the "here" there is actually a complex relationship of objects known as "individuals" and the four-dimensional locus of their existence. These individuals may or may not be "smokers," and the methods, practices, and imperatives of the said named individuals have absolutely no bearing on either the definition of, nor the application of, "here." This is to say, one must see that smoking or not, the "The Self" and "The Other" of "here" must interact while the paradigm of their discourse, both spoken and aphasic, is dictated solely by the actual "here."

Taking this method of analysis a step further, one must ask, What is a Smoker? That is, "Who" is the implied subject of the imperative "do not smoke?" One must conclude, in light of the paucity of fact or detail, that the un/named "smoker" signifies all people who smoke, including smokers who do not read signs, and smokers who hold that labels and signs refer to The Other.