Seeds : Signals, Fragments, and Structures of Silence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zima, Bill.

Series:

Brill Research Perspectives in Popular Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Morse code.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

Seeds asks what must already be in place for thought, perception, and relation to begin.You enter a modular and recursive text built from signals, fragments, and Morse-based structures, where rhythm and interval operate as temporal engines and silence functions as condition rather than absence.

Contents:

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword: The Secret Life of Morse Code: Media-Archaeological reflections on Bill Zima's (Tele-)Graphic artworks

Preface

Figures

Introduction

Orientation and Context

Part 1 Seeds: Fields and Fragments

Introduction to Part 1

Chapter 1 Breath and Rhythm

Chapter 2 Time Structures

Chapter 3 Silence and Survival

Chapter 4 Symbol and Signal

Chapter 5 Perception and Pattern

Chapter 6 Collapse and Continuity

Chapter 7 Emotional Simultaneity

Fragments Index

Part 2 Foundational Seeds

Introduction to Part 2

Chapter 8 Against the Grain-Chomsky, Generative Structure, and the Poetics of Signal

Chapter 9 Archetype, Signal, and the Unconscious Structure-Working with Jung in Pattern and Breath

Chapter 10 Cognitive Origami-Immersion, Latent Memory, and the Velocity of Thought

Chapter 11 Drift, Trace, Delay-Working with Derrida in Signal and Silence

Chapter 12 Duration as Breath-Bergson, Memory, and the Time of Signal

Chapter 13 Dwelling in the Signal-Heidegger, Being, and the Structure of Presence

Chapter 14 Embodied Signal-Simone de Beauvoir, Ambiguity, and the Practice of Becoming

Chapter 15 From Story to Signal-Folklore, Morse Code, and the Architecture of Collective Wisdom

Chapter 16 Hauntology in Signal-Fisher, Lost Futures, and the Architecture of Delay

Chapter 17 Holding Time-Bowlby, Attachment, and the Structure of Emotional Survival

Chapter 18 I Am a Forest-Nietzsche, Signal, and the Darkness of Structure

Chapter 19 Inner Architectures-Bachelard, Breath, and the Poetics of Space-Time

Chapter 20 Inscription and Survival-Kittler, Signal/Noise, and the Architecture of Media

Chapter 21 Memory Inscribed-Proust, Duration, and the Architecture of Recall.

Chapter 22 Myth as Code-Lévi-Strauss, Structure, and the Pulse of Thought

Chapter 23 Oceans of Time: Signal, Longing, and the Breath of the Unsaid

Chapter 24 Open Work, Signal Drift-Eco, Semiotics, and the Interpretation of Structure

Chapter 25 Other Tongues-Language, Identity, and the Morse Code Self

Chapter 26 Perception Held in Breath-Merleau-Ponty and the Embodied Signal

Chapter 27 Repetition as Being-Aristotle, Habit, and the Structure of Signal

Chapter 28 Rip Van Winkle Memory-Lost Books, Latent Thought, and the Return through Signal

Chapter 29 Saussure and the Drift of the Signifier-Signal, Residue, and Emotional Structure

Chapter 30 Signal and the Infinite Line-Shakespeare, Memory, and the Breath of the Word

Chapter 31 Signal as Appearance-Arendt, Action, and the Architecture of Presence

Chapter 32 Signal as Holding-Erskine, Relational Needs, and the Structure of Presence

Key Seeds of Relational Needs in My Practice

Chapter 33 Signal in Collapse-My Work and the Architecture of Collapsology

Chapter 34 Signal, Lack, and Structure-Lacan, the Symbolic, and the Code of Desire

Chapter 35 Signal, Trace, Presence-Working inside Peirce's Triad

Chapter 36 Signs of My Time-from My Father's Shop to Signal, Baudrillard, and the Collapse of the Real

Chapter 37 Simulacra, Signal, and Silence-Living beyond Meaning

Chapter 38 Structure and Nothingness-Sartre, Being, and the Signal of Existence

Chapter 39 The Architecture of Collapse

Chapter 40 The Archive of Signal-Foucault, Discourse, and Structures of Survival

Chapter 41 The Aura of the Signal-Benjamin, Memory, and the Repetition of Presence

Chapter 42 The Function of the Signal-Jakobson, Structure, and the Poetics of Code

Chapter 43 The Gesture Becomes the Signal-Cocteau, Metamorphosis, and the Poetics of Code.

Chapter 44 The Grain of the Signal-Barthes, Mythologies, and the Residue of Voice

Chapter 45 The Grid Is My Home

Chapter 46 The Law of the Signal-Kafka, Structure, and the Poetics of Ambiguity

Chapter 47 The Medium Is the Signal-McLuhan, Environment, and the Code of Presence

Chapter 48 The Performativity of Silence-Butler, Voice, and the Code of Survival

Chapter 49 The Repetition of Presence-Kierkegaard, Inwardness, and Signal as Leap

Chapter 50 The Return of the Signal-Freud, Latency, and Repetition as Presence

Chapter 51 The Rhythm Beneath-Kristeva, Semiotic Pulse, and Signal as Survival

Chapter 52 The Signal of Revolt-Camus, Absurdity, and Structure without Hope

Chapter 53 The Time of the Signal-Ernst, Sonicity, and Media as Temporal Structure

Chapter 54 The Work in My Soul-Frankenstein, Trauma, and the Signal of the Ununderstood

Chapter 55 Through the Door of Code

Chapter 56 What Can Be Shown-Wittgenstein, Language Games, and the Silence of Signal

Chapter 57 Whispers of Time-Global Stories as Signal Structures

Part 3 Codebook: Sketchbook Signals

Introduction to Part 3

Part 4 Longer Reflections

Introduction to Part 4

Chapter 58 Aesthetics and My Practice

Chapter 59 Art Theory and My Practice (with Footnotes)

Chapter 60 Cognitive Aesthetics and My Practice

Chapter 61 Collapsology and My Practice

Chapter 62 Disability Studies and My Practice

Chapter 63 Embodiment and My Practice

Chapter 64 Media Archaeology and My Practice

Chapter 65 Memory Studies and My Practice

Chapter 66 Neurodivergence and My Practice

Chapter 67 Phenomenology and My Practice

Chapter 68 Semiotics and My Practice

Chapter 69 Trauma Studies and My Practice

Appendix 1 Structure and Orientation

Appendix 2 Key Terms and Conceptual Vocabulary

Bibliography.

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ISBN:

9789004763371

OCLC:

1595737324