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The Other Heading
Jacques Derrida
Social Indiana University Press 0253316936 Available
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Other title information: Reflections on Today's Europe
Annotation: Prompted by the unification of Europe in 1992 and by recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Jacques Derrida begins this compelling essay on contemporary world politics with the issue of European identity. What, he asks, is Europe? How has Europe traditionally been defined and how is the current world situation changing that definition? Might the prospects of a New Europe demand not only a new definition of European identity but also a new way of thinking identity itself?
Identifier: 0253316936
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Political Semiosis in/of American Cultural Studies
Teresa Ebert
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1991, Volume 8, Issue 1/2
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- 113-136
The American Journal of Semiotics
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Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism
Frederic Jameson
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Culture Verso 9780860915379 Available
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Annotation: In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a definition of a term which has taken on so many meanings that it has virtually lost all historical significance. He presents an extensive discussion on the cultural landscape—both ‘high’ and ‘low’—of postmodernity, evaluating the political fortunes of the new term and surveying postmodern developments in a range of different fields—from market ideology to architecture, from painting and instalment art to contemporary punk film, from video art and high literature to deconstruction. Finally, Jameson revaluates the concept of postmodernism in light of postmodern critiques of totalization and historical narratives—from the notion of decadence to the dynamics of small groups, from religious fundamentalism to hi-tech science fiction—while touching on the nature of contemporary cultural critique and the possibilities of cognitive mapping in the present multinational world system. This provocative book will be fundamental to all future discussions of postmodernism.
Identifier: 9780860915379
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Ideology and Modern culture
John B. Thompson
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- Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication
Social Polity Press 0745600816 Available
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Annotation: In this major work, informed by materials from several disciplines and theoretical orientations, the author develops a distinctive new account of the theory of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern societies.In the two centuries since is first appeared in France, the concept of ideology has undergone many transformations. It has been twisted, reformulated, recast, and finally filtered back into the everyday language of social and political life. Although there is much that is misleading and erroneous in the traditions of ideology, the author shows that it still defines a terrain of analysis that remains central to contemporary social sciences and continues to be the site of lively theoretical debate.The key to his analysis is what he terms the "mediazation" of the culture—the general process by which the transmission of symbolic forms becomes increasingly reliant on the technical and institutional apparatuses of the media industries. Building on the work of Geertz and others, the author asserts that symbolic forms are embedded in such structured social contexts as power relations, forms of conflict, and inequalities in the distribution of resources, and that any discussion of mass communication must embrace its political as well as epistemological content.
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The city as text
James S. Duncan
Space Cambridge University Press 0521611962 Available
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Other title information: the politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan kingdom
Annotation: The study of landscape - broadly defined as encompassing both rural and urban environments - has hithero concentrated upon the impact cultura groups have had upon its shaping and design. In The city as text : the politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan kingdom James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.
Identifier: 0521611962
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Meaning, Subject, and Reality as Semiotic Foci of Political Research
Pertti Ahonen
In: The Semiotic Web 1989
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- 399-446
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The iconography of landscape
edited by Denis Cosgrove | Stephen Daniels
Space Cambridge University Press 0521324378 Available
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Annotation: The Iconography of Landscape draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image, 'a pictorial way of representing, structuring or symbolising surroundings'. By applying the art-historical method of iconography - interpreting levels of meaning in human artifacts - to landscapes on paper or canvas, in literary form or on its ground, its contributors show how landscape is an important mode of human signification, informed by, and itself informing, social, cultural and political issues. The range of examples is wide in terms of medium, period and place. It covers poetry and promotional literature, architectural design and urban ceremonial, maps and paintings. The historical periods discussed include sixteenth-century Italy, eighteenth-century England, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland and twentieth-century Canada. The book is introduced by the editors' discussion of the meanings of landscape and of the iconographic method in the context of contemporary theoretical and methodological debates on culture and society
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Paraesthetics
David Carroll
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Philosophy Routledge 0415902916 Available
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Other title information: Faucault, Lyotard, Derrida
Annotation: This new study focuses on the art/literature problem in each thinker's work, and how this issue provides critical perspectives on philosophy, history, and political theory
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The Political Struggle: Semiotics of Political Propaganda in Israel
Nurit Gertz
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1987, Volume 5, Issue 3/4
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- 359-379
The American Journal of Semiotics
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The Dialectical Biologist
Richard Levins | Richard Lewontin
Biology / Biosemiotics Harvard University Press 067420283X Available
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Annotation: Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choose sides. The Dialectical Biologist explores this political nature of scientific inquiry, advancing its argument within the framework of Marxist dialectic. These essays stress the concepts of continual change and codetermination between organism and environment, part and whole, structure and process, science and politics. Throughout, this book questions our accepted definitions and biases, showing the self-reflective nature of scientific activity within society.
Identifier: 067420283X
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Turn-taking and interruption in political interviews: Margaret Thatcher and Jim Callaghan compared and contrasted
GEOFFREY W. BEATTIE
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.39.1-2.93
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.39.1-2.93
Introduction to the reading of Hegel
Alexandre Kojeve
Philosophy Cornell University Press 9780801492037 Available
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Other title information: Lectures on the "phenomenology of spirit"
Annotation: During the years 1933-1939, the Marxist political philosopher Alexandre Kojeve brilliantly explicated – through a series of lectures – the philosophy of Hegel as it was developed in the "Phenomenology of Spirit". Based on the major work by Kojeve, this collection of lectures was chosen by Bloom to show the intensity of Kojeve's study and thought and the depth of his insight into Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit". More important, for Kojeve was above all a philosopher and not an ideologue, this profound and venturesome work of Hegel will expose the readers to the excitement of discovering a great mind in all its force and power. Alexandre Kojeve was born in Russia and educated in Berlin. After World War II he worked in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs as one of the chief planners for the Common Market while also continuing his philosophical pursuits.
Identifier: 9780801492037
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Ideology and Insanity
Thomas S. Szasz
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- Essays on the psychiatric dehumanization of man
Social Pelican Books 0140218262 Available
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Annotation: In the social and political conflicts that take place in any society, control of the weak by the strong is justified by the rhetoric appropriate to the prevailing ideology. The 20th century’s credo is Mental Health; and in its name those who deviate from accepted social norms are often victimized and dehumanized. The author of these fourteen essays is a psychoanalyst and teacher. Here, Dr. Thomas Szasz shows how, by encouraging us to wage war on the false front of mental illness, psychiatry too often serves as a convenient way of avoiding confrontations with moral conflicts and societal problems. And, he warns us, if we persist in defining the vicissitudes of life as mental illnesses, and psychiatric interventions as medical treatments, we court the hazards of political tyranny disguised as psychiatric therapy.
Identifier: 0140218262
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