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Journal Article 2022

Sociosemiotics of Advertising: Experiences, Themes and Perspectives

Marianna Boero

In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2022, Volume 44, Issue 1-2: Italian Semiotics I

Pages
153-170

Zeitschrift für Semiotik https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i1-2.822

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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v44i1-2.822

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Journal Article 2016

Consumption and climate change: Why we say one thing but do another in the face of our greatest threat

Geoffrey Beattie; Laura McGuire

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213

Pages
493-538

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0109

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0109

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Book 2016.0

Grand Hotel Abyss

Stuart Jeffries

Philosophy Verso 9781784785697 Available

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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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Journal Article 2016

Semiotic food, semiotic cooking: The ritual of preparation and consumption of hallacas in Venezuela

José Enrique Finol; Beatriz Pérez

In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211

Pages
271-291

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0088

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0088

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Book 2013.0

Are You Stupid?

Mihai Nadin

Edition
1 edition

Culture Synchron Publishers 9781490525655 Available

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Other title information: A Second Revolution Might Save America From Herself

Annotation: In the most dynamic and prosperous country on Earth-the USA-stupidity overshadows the intellectual and technical accomplishments that other nations envy. If Americans continue to delude themselves about their country, the USA will end up like the USSR: imploding from within. This work analyzes the systemic aspects of America's current condition: across-the-board-dumbing down through media and in education; growing dependence on and demand for entitlements; corruption in the private and political domains; chronic cronyism; the opportunistic engineering of reality. Consequently, individual and collective stupidity not only leads to crises, it renders the USA impotent in dealing with the challenges of the fast dynamics characteristic of our time of post-industrial capitalism oriented towards consumption. The causes for this state of stupidity are examined: the people's willful ignorance of the nation's true history and development; an economic system that does not foster a sense of citizenry; cultivated mediocrity in education and entertainment; corruption of justice; rampant consumerism; a state of prosperity that lulls the people into complacency. Taking the rewards of change for granted, Americans no longer understand what change entails. Gazing into the rear-view mirror of history in search of answers, they forget that the USA was founded in a world more similar to the 1st century than the 21st. Americans will have to start fighting their own stupidity instead of further exhausting the country's (and the world's) resources in wars and entitlement measures. America has to "reset" herself, within an authentic democratic process, on a foundation appropriate to the integrated world of the global information age.

Identifier: 9781490525655

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Journal Article 1997

Motion pictures as metaphoric consumption: How animal narratives teach us to be human

ELIZABETH C. HIRSCHMAN; CLINTON R. SANDERS

In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.115.1-2.53

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.115.1-2.53

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Journal Article 1994

The semiotics of ethnicity: Using consumption imagery to decode Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing

Elizabeth C. Hirschman

In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Pages
109-138

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-206

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi-1994-981-206

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Journal Article 1994

The semiotics of ethnicity: Using consumption imagery to decode Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing

ELIZABETH C. HIRSCHMAN

In: Semiotica 1994, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.109

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1994.98.1-2.109

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Collection Article 1988

Semiotics of Rhetoric: The Consumption of Fantasy

Jørgen Dines Johansen

In: The Semiotic Web 1988

Pages
301-332

The Semiotic Web

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