02762nam 2200601Ia 450 991078479070332120230607221502.01-281-29819-097866112981971-84714-087-4(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 technologySemiotics.Culture.Communication and technology.302.2Lucy Niall165466MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784790703321Beyond semiotics3725138UNINA