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986515
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b740885
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Lucy, Niall.
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Beyond semiotics : : text, culture and technology /\ Niall Lucy.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Continuum,, 2001.
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1 online resource (167 pages) :: illustrations
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0826449328
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: 9781281298195
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: 9781847140876
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0826449328
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0826449336
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9780826449320
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9781847140876
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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 ther.
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Communication and technology.
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Culture.
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Semiotics.
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Communication and technology.
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Culture.
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Kultur
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Communication Studies.
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Semiotics.
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Technologie
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Textsemiotik
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Communicatiewetenschap.
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Semiotiek.
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| Dewey Classification
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302.2
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| LC Classification
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P99.L83 2001eb
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05.02bcl
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