Beyond Semiotics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Semiotics write by Niall Lucy. This book was released on 2001-07-26. Beyond Semiotics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Where is semiotics now? As the promised science of the social life of signs in general, semiotics has not been good to its word. Although well-established institutionally today--through specialist journals, research centres, international conferences, professional associations and the like--semiotics now seems quaintly out of place in a world where text, culture and technology defy metadisciplinary, if not metaphysical, explanation. When the semiotician has finished explaining the music of Primal Scream, the textuality of an email message or the culture of the internet, most would believe there was still lots to be said. A generation ago, the radical humanities scholar turned to semiotics for the last word on news production, cinematic desire or the meaning of youth style. Today that last word (which is always the latest word too) is more likely to go to cultural studies, literary theory or postmodernism--all of which are in several senses 'beyond' semiotics even while remaining indebted to it. In addition, we can't so easily presume to separate notions of production and desire, say, or news and cinema, precisely because we can no longer say for sure where the differences lie between notions of text, culture and technology. Beyond Semiotics provides an approach to these three interdependent concepts of text, culture and technology, in order to show what semiotics had always had to marginalize, forget, or not see in the quest to professionalize itself. Meanwhile, outside the limitation of any discipline, the secular mysteries of text, culture and technology today continue to call for a response--not with the aim of laying bare the truth, but of opening up the sign.
Semiotic Agency
Semiotic Agency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Semiotic Agency write by Alexei Sharov. This book was released on 2022-02-08. Semiotic Agency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book invites readers to embark on a journey into the world of agency encompassing humans, other organisms, cells, intracellular molecular agents, colonies, populations, ecological systems, and artificial autonomous systems. We combine mechanistic and non-mechanistic approaches in the analysis of the function and evolution of organisms, their subagents, and multi-organism systems, and in this way offer a theoretical platform for integrating biosemiotics with both natural science and the humanities/social sciences. Agents are autonomous systems that incorporate knowledge on how to make sense of their environment and use it to achieve their goals. The functions of all agents are supported by mechanisms at the lowest level; however, the explanatory power of mechanistic analysis is not sufficient for complex agents. Non-mechanistic methods rely on the goal-directedness of agents whose dynamics follow self-stabilized dynamic attractors. The properties of attractors depend on stable or slowly changing factors, and such dependencies can be interpreted as sign relations if they are adaptive in nature. Agents can replace or redirect mechanisms on demand in order to preserve their functions; for performing higher-level semiotic functions, mechanisms are thus only means. We assume that mechanism and semiosis are not mutually exclusive, and that simple agents can interpret signs mechanistically. This assumption allows us to extend semiotic analysis to all agents, including ribosomes in cells, computers, and robots. This book challenges established traditions in natural science and the humanities/social sciences: semiotics no longer appears as restricted to humans and rational thinking, and biology is no longer limited to rely exclusively on mechanistic reasoning.
Semiotic Mediation
Semiotic Mediation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Semiotic Mediation write by Elizabeth Mertz. This book was released on 2013-10-22. Semiotic Mediation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Approx.394 pages
Critical Semiotics
Critical Semiotics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Semiotics write by Gary Genosko. This book was released on 2016-09-22. Critical Semiotics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural studies has received much attention: a focus on the pre-individual bodily forces, linked to automatic responses, which augment or diminish the body's capacity to act or engage with others. In a world dominated by information, how do things that seem to have diminished meaning or even no meaning still have so much power to affect us, or to carry on our ability to affect the world? Linguistics and semiotics have been accused of being adrift from the affective turn and not accounting for these visceral forces beneath or generally other from conscious knowing. In this book, Gary Genosko delivers a detailed refutation, with analyses of specific contributions to critical semiotic approaches to meaning and signification. People want to understand how other people are moved and to understand embodied social actions, feelings and passions at the same time as understanding how this takes place. Semiotics must make the affective turn.
Semiotics of Culture and Beyond
Semiotics of Culture and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Semiotics of Culture and Beyond write by Irene Portis-Winner. This book was released on 2013. Semiotics of Culture and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume discusses the major founding scholars of «semiotics of culture», including Charles Sanders Peirce, Roman Jakobson, Jurij Lotman, and Mikhail Bakhtin who established dialogue as the basis of all human communication.
