Beyond Semiotics
Text, Culture and Technology
Published on 26. July 2001
Book
Hardback
167 pages
978-0-8264-4932-0 (ISBN)
Description
This title provides an approach to 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
fig
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-4932-0 (9780826449320)
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E-Book
07/2001
1st Edition
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
€39.99
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Person
Niall Lucy is Senior Lecturer in English at Murdoch University, Australia. He is the author of Debating Derrida (Melbourne University Press, 1995), Postmodern Literary Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 1997) and editor of Postmodern Literary Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2000).
Content
Chance encounters; the concept of culture; a short history of semiotics; total eclipse of the heart (thinking through technology); the phake fone - crossing (telecommunication) lines; situating technologies - radio activity and the nuclear question; the sound of a dream; Catholic English; derrivations - from Derrida to Empson; "Gilligan's Wake" coda - interzones (science sentiment cyberpunk).