02796nam 2200613Ia 450 991045831910332120200520144314.01-281-29819-097866112981971-84714-087-4(CKB)1000000000400411(EBL)436691(OCoLC)568446297(SSID)ssj0000111035(PQKBManifestationID)11145585(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000111035(PQKBWorkID)10074956(PQKB)10728400(MiAaPQ)EBC436691(Au-PeEL)EBL436691(CaPaEBR)ebr10224897(CaONFJC)MIL129819(OCoLC)893334280(EXLCZ)99100000000040041120001201d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBeyond semiotics[electronic resource] text, culture and technology /Niall LucyLondon ;New York Continuum20011 online resource (176 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8264-4932-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-163) and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Chance Encounters; 1 The Concept of Culture; 2 A Short History of Semiotics; 3 Total Eclipse of the Heart (Thinking through Technology); 4 The Phake Fone: Crossing (Telecommunication) Lines; 5 Situating Technologies: Radio Activity and the Nuclear Question; 6 The Sound of a Dream; 7 Catholic English; 8 Derrivations: From Derrida to Empson; 9 Gilligans Wake; Coda: Interzones (Science Sentiment Cyberpunk); Notes; Bibliography; IndexWhere 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 thereSemioticsCultureCommunication and technologyElectronic books.Semiotics.Culture.Communication and technology.302.2Lucy Niall165466MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458319103321Beyond semiotics2201044UNINA