4. Discuss the following implications of the following image for cultural studies and the process of signification

This image implicates the difference between the signifier and the signified. The signifier is the object that we see deliberately, in this case the pipe. The signified is the concept we have behind the pipe. The signifier such as the material of the pipe and the shape of the pipe makes it a pipe but in reality it is just a 2-dimensional image that when the bits and pieces are combined create the image of the pipe.