LEADER 02796nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910458319103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-29819-0 010 $a9786611298197 010 $a1-84714-087-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000400411 035 $a(EBL)436691 035 $a(OCoLC)568446297 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000111035 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11145585 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000111035 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10074956 035 $a(PQKB)10728400 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436691 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436691 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10224897 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL129819 035 $a(OCoLC)893334280 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000400411 100 $a20001201d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond semiotics$b[electronic resource] $etext, culture and technology /$fNiall Lucy 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cContinuum$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (176 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-4932-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [159]-163) and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aWhere 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 606 $aSemiotics 606 $aCulture 606 $aCommunication and technology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSemiotics. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aCommunication and technology. 676 $a302.2 700 $aLucy$b Niall$0165466 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458319103321 996 $aBeyond semiotics$92201044 997 $aUNINA