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Gli stili prenatali
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- Un'estetica psicofisiologica
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Annotation: This book, in this re-edition, contains a broad update of the research on the topic of prenatal styles. What is proposed here is a psychophysiological aesthetics and at the same time a semiotics that provides tools to diagnose "senseless" pathological behaviors as symptoms of an obsessive or regressive condition corresponding to a certain prenatal evolutionary phase. The volume is aimed at a wide and varied audience. In particular, it is proposed as a training tool for teachers of verbal and non-verbal expressive disciplines, for teachers and students of humanistic disciplines, for educators, animators, community assistants and health personnel.
Identifier: 9788869922787
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Introduction—A Manifesto For “New Humanities”
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 1-25
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La Corposphère
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- Anthropo-Sémiotiques du corps
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Annotation: The body, in its entirety and at all times, even in spite of itself, signifies. In itself and in the whole of its relations, the body constitutes a kind of "Corposphere", itself part of the "Semiosphere" that Lotman defined as a "continuum occupied by semiotic formations of various types and which are at different levels of organization". It is therefore from the body / in the body / by the body that semiosis begins and ends; and it is in its presential whole and its principal role in the lived world that we can find / construct the interpretation of the world.
Identifier: 9783639624175
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Mimicry and Meaning
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Other title information: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry
Annotation: The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.
Identifier: 9783319503158
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Musical Performance As an Intermedial Affair (A Case of a Pianist)
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1/2
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- 83-98
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Réécriture et chanson
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- dans l'aire romane
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Annotation: De la mise en musique de la poésie à la reprise qui resémantise, de la littérature qui se réinvente en deux minutes trente aux grandes figures de la chanson qu’on traduit parce qu’on les admire, des covers caricaturales aux arrangements qui redéfinissent un chant connu, on parlera ici de toutes les formes d’interprétation en chanson : traduire, (re)chanter, renouveler la musique, donner un sens nouveau, donner le même sens avec d’autres mots ou d’autres sons.
Identifier: 9791032000960
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Sounds, Societies, Significations
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Other title information: Numanistic Approaches to Music
Annotation: This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the “popstar” as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain “meaning” or “function” (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment.
Identifier: 9783319470597
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Telos and Object
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Other title information: The relation between sign and object as a teleological relation in the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce
Notes: This is Luca Rosso's thesis
Annotation: The semiotics of Charles S. Peirce is conceived as an essential part of a comprehensive philosophical outlook. The study of signs is carried on for its bearing on the knowledge of reality; therefore the relation of signs to objects is the core concern of Peirce’s semiotics. This study looks at this question on the background of Peirce’s philosophical system, individuating in the theories of reality and of knowledge the key issues which allow a philosophically grounded definition of the sign-object relation. The concepts of teleology and of final cause reveal themselves to be the essential conception which emerges from these two issues. The underlying teleological tendencies in the use of signs justify their gnoseological reliableness.
Identifier: 9783034320887
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“La morte non avrà signoria”: Domande per Umberto Eco
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0096
A meta-theoretical approach to the history and theory of semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 1-42
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0100
A note on the meanings of junk food
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 127-137
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0094
A semiotic analysis of anti-identity construction in fictional narratives from the viewpoint of modeling systems theory
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 151-166
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0058
A-voiding representation:<i>Eräugnis</i>and inscription in Celan
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 601-623
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0163
Animal Umwelten in a Changing World
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Other title information: Zoosemiotic perspectives
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: This book is a collective effort. Its authors belong to the research group in zoosemiotics and human-animal relations based in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Stavanger in Norway. The two opening chapters are written and edited collectively and present a framework of philosophical, historical, epistemological and methodological matters of zoosemiotic research. These initial considerations are followed by specific case studies that have been conducted by individual authors. The specific chapters, however, have been cross-edited and commented on by other authors of the book so that the whole collection forms an integrated set of view-points.
Identifier: 9789949772803
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Anthropological-semiotics of rhythm and animating modernity in China: A rhythmanalysis of Princess Iron Fan
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 1-34
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0023
Anthroposemiotics of literature: The cultural nature
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 435-455
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0028
Are nutrients also good to think?
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 139-163
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0111
Art: A First-Person Science
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Becoming a commercial semiotician
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 345-363
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0155
Bioinformatic Egg, Biosemiotic Hen
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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Biosemiotic Cosmogony of the Riddle of Life!
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Biosemiotic Expectations
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Chanson
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Other title information: Du Collectif a l'intime
Annotation: Impossible d'enumerer les circonstances qui font de la chanson, de sa creation a sa reception, un art collectif. Intermediale, sa fabrication, mele souvent plusiers talents et la forme la plus accoplie de sa performance, son expression sur scene, se fait devant un auditoire.
Identifier: 9791032000717
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Conceptual embodiment in visual semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 215-234
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0052
Consumption and climate change: Why we say one thing but do another in the face of our greatest threat
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 493-538
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0109
Critique of the culinary reason
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 165-186
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0097
Cross-political pan-commercialism in the postmodern age and proposed readjustment of semiotic practices
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 365-396
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0156
Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics
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Annotation: This is the first book to consider the major implications for culture of the new science of biosemiotics. The volume is mainly aimed at an audience outside biosemiotics and semiotics, in the humanities and social sciences principally, who will welcome elucidation of the possible benefits to their subject area from a relatively new field. The book is therefore devoted to illuminating the extent to which biosemiotics constitutes an ‘epistemological break’ with ‘modern’ modes of conceptualizing culture. It shows biosemiotics to be a significant departure from those modes of thought that neglect to acknowledge continuity across nature, modes which install culture and the vicissitudes of the polis at the centre of their deliberations. The volume exposes the untenability of the ‘culture/nature’ division, presenting a challenge to the many approaches that can only produce an understanding of culture as a realm autonomous and divorced from nature.
Identifier: 9789402408577
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Dialogue, responsibility and literary writing: Mikhail Bakhtin and his Circle
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 307-343
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0094
Does one truly need to belong?: A case for the need to meaningfully exist
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 251-257
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0026
Embracing Cybernetics: Living Legacy of the Bateson Research Team
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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Exploring stories
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 267-271
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0055
Food design chez Bras
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 341-353
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0090
Food design: Symbols of our daily nutrition
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 355-369
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0101
Food meaning: From tasty to flavorful
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 187-201
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0103
Food-ography: Food and new media
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0087
Foreword: Bateson Facets
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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Glocal and food: On alimentary translation
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 105-125
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0099
Grand Hotel Abyss
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Other title information: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
Annotation: Who were the Frankfurt School — Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer — and why do they matter today? In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they change the way we think, but also the subjects we deem worthy of intellectual investigation.Grand Hotel Abyss combines biography, philosophy, and storytelling to reveal how the Frankfurt thinkers gathered in hopes of understanding the politics of culture during the rise of fascism. Some of them, forced to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany, later found exile in the United States. By taking popular culture seriously as an object of study—whether it was film, music, ideas, or consumerism—the Frankfurt School elaborated upon the nature and crisis of our mass-produced, mechanised society. Grand Hotel Abyss shows how much these ideas still tell us about our age of social media and runaway consumption.
Identifier: 9781784785697
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Individuating in the dark: Diagrammatic reasoning and attentional shifts
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 210
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- 35-56
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0057
Interaffectivity: Why interaction is not enough
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Interrelations of codes in human semiotic systems
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 557-599
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0138
Introduction: Semiotics of food
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 19-26
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0095
Knowledge & Complexity International Bateson Institute Column
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets
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L’esthésique et l’épiphanique: Traces figuratives de la saveur
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 203-229
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0109
La possibilité d’une étude sémiotique des transhumanités: Une lecture d’un film <i>La Créature céleste</i>, bouddha robot coréen
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 43-61
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0157
La triple chaîne prédicative
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Other title information: Analogies biologiques et structures mathématiques pour un génotexte
Annotation: A partir des verbes opérateurs d’un texte, jusqu’à leur enchaînement complet et original en une triple chaîne prédicative, l’ouvrage construit des scénarios de schèmes dans le cadre théorique de la Grammaire Applicative et Cognitive. Il propose une analyse de comparaisons existantes entre le génome et l’alphabet ou le texte, mettant en exergue la nécessité de niveaux d’analyse. A travers une série d’analogies, et une réflexion de ce fait interdisciplinaire, ces structures du langage sont mises en relation avec des structures mathématiques et biologiques : l’ADN, les protéines, la formation de l’embryon, selon des niveaux de comparaison. Construit par ses opérateurs qui mettent en œuvre un concept, le texte se déploie à partir de repères topologiques internes, tel le système nerveux puis le corps à la suite des cellules neurales. Une topologie textuelle devient appropriée pour décrire ce processus. From the operator verbs of a text, to their complete and original chaining in a triple predicative chain, the work constructs scenarios of schemes in the theoretical framework of Applicative and Cognitive Grammar. It proposes an analysis of existing comparisons between the genome and the alphabet or the text, highlighting the need for levels of analysis. Through a series of analogies, and a reflection of this interdisciplinary fact, these structures of language are related to mathematical and biological structures: DNA, proteins, the formation of the embryo, according to levels of comparison. Constructed by its operators who implement a concept, the text unfolds from internal topological markers, such as the nervous system then the body following the neural cells. A textual topology becomes appropriate to describe this process. (translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 9783034320979
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Leadership as zero-institution
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 473-491
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0101
Les deux barricades: Complexité sémiotique et objectivation des faits de style dans un extrait des<i>Misérables</i>
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 91-122
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0098
Letter: Gregory Bateson to Cecil P. Martin
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 3: Batesonian Facets