For example, the Surrealist artist (and advertising man) René Magritte, who is best known for his bowler-wearing everyman posters, is also well-known for his painting of a pipe, called “La trahison des images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe)” (1929), or “This is not a Pipe.” The philosopher Michel Foucault (whose ideas also appear throughout the shows) wrote an essay about it.
From the link
: According to Foucault, what renders Magritte’s figure “strange” is not the contradiction between the image (the pipe) and the text (“This is not a pipe”) because a contradiction can exist only between two statements. … [T]here is only one statement and one simple demonstration but, through our own habits of reading, we assume a “natural” connecting of text and drawing. … Rather than reading the painting as a sign with its label, Foucault asserted that Magritte’s painting was a calligram, “secretly constructed and carefully unraveled.”
So, where does “Breaking Bad” talk about what something isn’t? Oh yeah!
Tuco: “So let me get this straight, I steal your dope, I beat the piss out of your mule boy, and you bring me more meth? That’s brilliant!”
Walt: “You got one part of that wrong. This is not meth.”
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