Beyond semiotics : text, culture and technology / Niall Lucy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucy, Niall.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Culture.

Communication and technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-163) and index.

ISBN:

9786611298197

9781281298195

1281298190

9781847140876

1847140874

OCLC:

568446297