Beyond semiotics [[electronic resource] ] : text, culture and technology / / Niall Lucy

• Autore: Lucy Niall
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.2
• Soggetto topico: Semiotics; Culture; Communication and technology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-163) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond semiotics
• ISBN: 1-281-29819-0; 9786611298197; 1-84714-087-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784790703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II