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Language of Life
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- A Peircean Approach to Living Organisms
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Notes: general editor of the series Elize Bisanz
Annotation: In this book, Peirce’s logical apparatus is used to explain some topics in biology where traditional scientific methods fail to establish the relation between the real and the virtual in the genetic script, the irreducibility of evolution to the genome, and the multidimensionality of the passage from genotype to phenotype. The interdisciplinary nature of this study consists in combining Peirce’s triadic logic, linguistics and biology; the author, as a linguist, draws out similarities between sentence construction and protein folding. Three main branches from the biological sciences are focused on: evolution, epigenetics and protein folding. The volume applies Peirce’s logical tools to demonstrate the universal validity of his scientific method in the current research.
Identifier: 9783631925935
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Multimodal Semiotics for the Analysis of Comics and Graphic Novels
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1-2: Innovative Methods in Multimodal Comics Research
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- 11-56
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i1-2.757
Presahy semiotických a kulturálnych štúdií
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Annotation: After a series of recent musical and artistic projects, musician, educator and theorist Július Fujak has also made a name for himself as a journalist. His latest publication is primarily a scientific and pedagogical publication intended for students of humanities, but its broad-spectrum content can provide space for reflection for those interested in diverse views and perspectives on current issues of contemporary culture and art. The publication is divided into two thematic areas: The first area, entitled Overlaps of Semiotic Studies, focuses on the field of semiotics of art, and the second represents Overlaps of Cultural Studies. The leitmotif of Fujak's work is precisely the phenomenon of overlaps between contemporary semiotics and culturology. Both disciplines, subject to development and transformation in current economic, social and cultural realities, find themselves (like many other disciplines) at an imaginary crossroads. They can remain in the closedness of now-outdated theoretical concepts or, in the words of Július Fujak, "become part of a revitalization effort to investigate socially culture-forming phenomena in the intentions of the necessarily complementary interdisciplinary overlap of the postmodern scientific discourse of semiotic and cultural studies". It is precisely the ability to observe and (re)discover mutual overlaps in the aforementioned branches of contemporary humanities that we find in the individual critically reflected topics of Fujak's current book.
Identifier: 9788055820927
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Signs and Spaces
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- Studies in Spatial Semiotics
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Notes: Sign-worlds. Studies from the Budapest Contemporary Semiotics Workshop
Annotation: The studies in this volume are part of a project on the semiotics of space, which emerged from research conducted in Budapest Contemporary Semiotics Workshop. This project is primarily based on the real fact that we live in multiple types and kinds of sign-spaces in society. These sign-spaces, such as a traffic sign system or a film location, are semiotically describable units of space filled with sign-formations and signs that are interconnected in some way. The implementation of the spatial semiotics project has three main strands, as illustrated by papers in this volume: firstly, researchers map the syntactic and other features of existing sign-spaces, and secondly, they use the resulting toolbox to refine descriptive semiotic procedures. Finally, and thirdly, they apply these tools to solve practical problems.
Identifier: 9786150188676
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Digital Media in Semiotic Research in Italy
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2022, Volume 44, Issue 3-4: Italian Semiotics II
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i3-4.846
Intersemiotic translation from fairy tale to sculpture: An exploration of secondary narrativity
In: Sign Systems Studies 2022, Volume 50, Issue 2/3
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- 317-345
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2022.50.2-3.06
Quand l’éventail du désaccord laisse parler au-delà des paroles: Etude historico-sémiotique de la légende du Coup de l’Eventail
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 193-211
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0036
The “empirical vocation” of the semiotics of Umberto Eco in his works on the media and mass communication
In: Semiotica 2022, Issue 245
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- 175-192
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0016
Modèles logiques de la structure élémentaire de la signification: Templum, prisme sémiotique, carré sémiotique, cube sémiotique et autres
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 238
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- 91-124
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0096
On how to legitimately constrain a semantic theory
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 240
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- 97-127
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0014
Personality and climate change mitigation: a psychological and semiotic exploration of the sustainable choices of optimists
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 237-273
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0056
Stylistique et herméneutique des œuvres littéraires : pour une approche intégrative, via la notion de « stylisation »
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 121-137
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0157
Culture and Communication
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- An Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works by Yuri Lotman
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Other title information: Signs in Flux
Notes: Translated from Russian by Benjamin Paloff
Annotation: This collection provides a stand-alone primer to his intellectual legacy in both semiotics and cultural history. It includes new translations of some of his major pieces as well as works that have never been published in English. The collection brings Lotman into the orbit of contemporary concerns such as gender, memory, performance, world literature, and urban life. It is aimed at students from various disciplines and is augmented by an introduction and notes that elucidate the relevant contexts.
Identifier: 9781644693872
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Hermovo Ucho & PostmutArt (1999-2019)
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- Reprezentačný zborník
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Other title information: 2 dekady oneho umenia v Nitre
Annotation: In Slovakia, especially outside the capital, unconventional art has never been given the space it deserves. It was and is no different in Nitra, where – although it is home to two universities – progressive, experimental and alternative artistic initiatives still do not bloom like roses... They find themselves in an alienated position, often on the fringes of interest, somehow “they cannot come up with a name” – in which case they are called “that” in the local dialect. Perhaps that is why we have chosen the adjective of not another, but “that” art in the title of this publication, which in many ways deviates from the norm, is significantly different, provocative, and at the very least thought-provoking. The monographic publication Hermovo Ucho & PostmutArt – 2 two decades of that art in Nitra aims to map retrospectively, in a chronological manner, the entire two decades of the existence of the international cycles, or rather festivals HERMOVO UCHO V NITRE and POSTMUTART, focused from the end of the 20th century to the present precisely on these artistic initiatives, often moving in a taxonomically indefinable interspace – on the border of intermedial overlaps and innovative fusions of new music, visual art, video art, performance, sound art, happening –, testing their limits and crossing the boundaries of discursive and non-discursive symbolism in the period of late postmodernism.
Identifier: 9788055815237
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Mapping Musical Signification
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Annotation: This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on all that music connotes. Musicological reflections on musically expressive content have been pursued for some decades now, in spite of the formalist prejudices that can still hindermusicians and music lovers. The author organizes this body of research so that both professionals and everyday listeners can benefit from it – in plain English, but without giving up the level of depth required by the subject matter. Two criteria have guided his choice among the many ways to speak about musical meaning: its relevance to performance, and its suitability to the teaching context. The legacy of the so-called art music, without an interpretive approach that links ancient traditions to our present, runs the risk of missing the link to the new generations of musicians and listeners. Complementing the theoretical, systematic content, each chapter includes a wealth of examples, including the so-called popular music.
Identifier: 9783030524951
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New Localism
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Other title information: Living in the Here and Now
Annotation: This book examines “New Localism' – exploring how communities have turned towards more local concerns: my street, my town, my state, as an expression of dissatisfaction with globalization. It details the ideas that have created a political force that academics have often misunderstood and provides a template for further investigation with a strong focus on how to harness the motivations behind such changes for the benefit of individuals, communities and the more-than-human environment.
Identifier: 9783030215781
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Structural Units of Mass Culture Mythology
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Other title information: A Cultural Semiotic Approach
Annotation: My dissertation focuses on the study of myths and their semiotic mechanisms that appear in contemporary mass culture texts. Although myths and mass culture as a whole have been widely discussed from the perspectives of various disciplines, there are no studies that deal with the systematization of mass culture mythology and the semiotic definition of mythic markers. The topic of this dissertation is interesting not only from a general theoretical, philosophical, anthropological and semiotic perspective, but also for practical reasons. I believe that I can convincingly show in my work that the study and identification of semiotic mechanisms of mass culture myths is applicable in the field of marketing semiotics and social communication. In my dissertation, I first compare mass culture mythology from a sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspective. This allows me to combine the two main epistemological approaches to myth research and treat myth as a holistic meta-concept on the one hand, and approach myth as a cultural text on the other. Based on the framework I have created, I will analyze various texts of mass culture in my work and focus on identifying the most common and enduring structural units of mass culture mythology. How do I define a smaller unit of myth? In defining it, I will rely on two structural principles of myth: the emic unit, which I denote by the concept of mythologeme, and the hybrid unit, which I denote by the concept of mytheme. In the course of the analysis, I will highlight the following mythologemes: Fate, Journey, Universality, Catastrophe, Golden Age and Mother Nature, and the mythemes: Transformation and Return. In addition to distinguishing the aforementioned mythologemes and mythemes, I will highlight their value and function in mythological discourse. Fate and Journey help to integrate the life of the individual into the whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature is associated with the existential need of a person to search for authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of the Universe, Catastrophe and Golden Age constitute the human time-spatial past-present-future triad. The latter are related to human questions about the origin of the world, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mythologeme of Transformation points to the idea of miracle and the mythologeme of Return to the time-spatial axis of the human semiosphere, to orderliness. The last chapter of the work applies the theoretical framework developed in the dissertation to specific case studies. The first of them is dedicated to the analysis of the TV political marketing of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader, and there I show how archetypal mythological meanings were included in the structure of the political narrative. The second case study focuses on the development of a specific brand, which I did in collaboration with the well-known Russian pop artist Manizha, and where I apply the mythologeme of Mother Nature.Further research into mythologemes and mythemes could open up new semiotic markers and thereby expand the field of application of semiotics, as well as help to better understand the mythological basis of culture. This dissertation presents a semiotic study of myth revealing in contemporary mass cultural texts and exploration of its inner semiotic machinery. Although a variety of studies have been devoted to myth, and quite a few studies have tackled mass culture issues, less attention has been given to the systematic articulation of mass cultural mythology and its markers, which reveal its inner semiotic machinery. Those issues are relevant not only from a general theoretical philosophical, anthropological, and semiotic point of view, but also have concrete applicability in marketing semiotics and social communications. Firstly, I discuss mass culture under an emancipatory umbrella approach and explore mass culture mythology from the sociological, philosophical-anthropological and semiotic perspectives. Secondly, I combine two main epistemological attitudes of myth and integrate a holistic object of research – which appears as a meta-concept – from one side, and a text of culture – mass cultural narratives around brands conveying their main values – from the other side . Thirdly, I discuss the smallest units of mass culture mythology and explore its most widespread structural units. I classify the smallest units of myth by their structural principles: the emic units (mythologemes) and the hybrid ones (mythemes). There are the mythologemes of Fate, Course, Universe, Catastrophe, Golden Age, and Mother Nature, and the mythemes of Transformation and Backtracking considered in detail. The main existential values of those smallest mythological units are discussed. The mythologemes of Fate and Course help to understand individual life as a part of an integral whole. The mythologeme of Mother Nature relates to the existential search for inner authenticity and identity. The mythologemes of Universe, Catastrophe, and Golden Age constitute an integral triadic idea about time and space (past-present-future) and reflect the human existential quest for an explanation of the world origin, nostalgia for the past and fears about the future. The mytheme of Transformation represents the idea of mythological miracle, and the mytheme of Backtracking appeals to the idea of a mastered time and space. Fourthly, I extend the process to find more minimal units of myth in cultural texts of different genres. The first case is dedicated to close analysis of the television communication of the Ukrainian politician Darth Vader. This case demonstrates the combination of archaic meanings and contemporary forms of myth within a narrative, producing new powerful connotations. The second case applies the Mother Nature mythologeme as a branding tool for building a coherent image of a musical artist. The further exploration of the mythologemes and mythemes and articulation of other semiotic markers of myth systematically enriches a profound understanding of human mind and culture.
Identifier: 9789949032150
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Adaptation, learning, Bildung: Discussion with edu- and biosemiotics
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.02
Rudo Dička
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Other title information: nepokoj vzdoru
Annotation: After more than four years since the death of Rudolf Dička, this monograph is being published which is not an exhaustive review of the Catalog raisonne type, but rather begins with a publication, trying to save what is left after this powerful artist from Kyushu.
Identifier: 9788089172450
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Urban ecosemiotics of trees: Why the ecological alien species paradigm has not gained ground in cities?
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 319-342
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.06
An Invitation to Creative Reflection
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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Asmuo ir idėjos
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Annotation: The book is intended to comprehensively present the most important and most important part of the theoretical legacy of the famous semiotician, mythologist, linguist, culture and society critic and essayist Algirdas Julius Greimas (1917-1992), without which he would not be what he was, is and will remain in the history of humanitarian and social thinking. – his semiotics research project and extensions of this project. The principles of semiotics and its areas of study are critically reviewed, and the philosophical and personal existential dimension and meaning of Greimas' thinking are revealed. His closest students and collaborators, as well as later followers in France, Italy, Lithuania and elsewhere, describe the most important varieties and branches of semiotics after Greimas, their current state and future prospects.
Identifier: 9786094700880
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Building Communication Theory From Cybersemiotics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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Estudo Interpretativo da Técnica Composicional Melodia das Montanhas
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- Utilizada nas peças orquestrais
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Other title information: New York Sky-Line Melody e Sinfonia No. 6 de Heitor Villa-Lobos
Annotation: The 20th century produced a significant number of geniuses. In music, we had Strawinsky, Debussy, Puccini, Strauss, to name just a few from different countries, and our own Villa-Lobos. His presence in the music scene is of great importance. Villa-Lobos, a profound observer of life, never missed an opportunity to invent new processes of musical creation for himself and for the teachers of Orpheonic Singing. Thus, in 1934, a method of creating melodies coming from nature itself emerged: the Chart to record the Melody of the Mountains of Brazil. "The maestro sought a kind of representation of Brazil based on these geographical symbols", as Dr. Rodrigo Felicíssimo points out in his doctoral thesis, which was promptly transformed into a book.
Identifier: 9783330765054
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Evolution and Communication: Heterodox Rethinkings
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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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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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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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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Shelter on the Mountain of God: Ernst Cassirer and the Religious Institution of Empire
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 2017, Volume 33, Issue 3/4
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- 399-425
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Some 19th Century Problems Of Evolution (1965)
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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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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The embodiment of connotations: A proposed model
In: Semiotica 2017, Issue 218
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- 65-79
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0112
The Relationship Between Social and Biotic Evolution: The Evolution of Autopoietic Systems
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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Towards an ecology of mind
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Other title information: Batesonian legacy continued
Annotation: This new editorial series in the humanities, established under the title Batesoniana Polonica, is open to all international contributors asa potential platfrom for respective exhanges of ideas and a tool for the further deepending of analyses that may be developed in various sectors of scientific explorations where the influence of Gregory Bateson is felt for years and years and much before his death in 1980. The following volume no 1, is a very special kind of collective exertion for editors, and, hopefully, it will be well received so by its prospective readers. Its project is connected with preparations for a truly international initiative, namely the Second Bateson Symposium in Poland, to be located at the Silesian Botanic Garden in Mikolow, June 1-4 2017, which should constitute a preliminary stage to a world congress on the ecology of mind to be held at Katowice, Poland, in July of 2018.
Identifier: 9788365621252
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Virtual Logic: The Logic of Quantum Theory
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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A History of the History of Cybernetics: An Agenda for an Ever-changing Present
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 42
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A Merger of Two Strategic (Ir)reconcilables, 1962-1980
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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- 10
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A Reader on Both Cybernetics and Systems Theory
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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An exploration of the semantic domain of legal language
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 209
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- 187-208
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0001
Art: A First-Person Science
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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ASC 1999 to 2001: A Personal Account
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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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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Can Pragmatists Believe in Qualia?
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics
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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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Column on Transdisciplinary Realism
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 2: Challenges of, and to, Pragmatics