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Zählen, messen, kontrollieren: Über eine ambivalente Technik der (Post)Moderne oder: wie aus persönlichem Geltungsdrang ein gesellschaftliches Problem werden kann
Nils Zurawski
In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik 2023, Volume 45, Issue 3-4: Selbstoptimierung
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- 175-190
Zeitschrift für Semiotik https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i3-4.865
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Identifier: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v45i3-4.865
Ulrich Beck
edited by Ulrich Beck
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- 1 edition
Social Springer Cham 9783319049892 Available
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Other title information: Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society
Annotation: This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world’s leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society. His world risk society theory has been confirmed by recent disasters – events that have shaken modern society to the core, signaling the end of an era in which comprehensive insurance could keep us safe. Due to its own successes, modern society now faces failure: while in the past experiments were conducted in a lab, now the whole world is a test bed. Whether nuclear plants, genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology – if any of these experiments went wrong, the consequences would have a global impact and would be irreversible. Beck recommends ignoring the mathematical morality of expert opinions, which seek to identify the level of a given risk by calculating the probability of its occurrence. Instead, man’s fear of collapse should offer an opportunity for international cooperation and a cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences.
Identifier: 9783319049892
Status: Available
A semiotic alternative to communication in the processes in management accounting and control systems
Ülle Pärl
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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- 183-208
Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.06
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.06
The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction
Marina Grishakova
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Literature Tartu University Press Available
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Other title information: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Annotation: Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation of scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of "modeling" in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in ( post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman's conception of artistic models, the book adopts the semiotic perspective on modeling as an open-ended heuristic process underlying the logic of discovery and creative thinking. The book discusses the models of time and memory in modernist culture (Nietzsche's and Bergson's philosophy of time, Minkowski's research on the psychopathological types of temporality) and their relevance to Nabokov's fiction; popular-scientific notions of serialism and the fourth dimension; thematizations of the observer in modernist philosophy and arts; visual "prostheses" and "machines" (Eco), particularly the "camera vision" metaphor, its relation to Bergson's notion of automatism and the popular idea of the criminal use of hypnosis. Vision is also thematized as a means of seduction and noncoercive control. Even before Foucault, Baudrillard and other critics of modernity, Nabokov noticed that advertising, political propaganda and erotic seduction alike employ implicit forms of suggestion. The book revises Rorty's dilemma of "autonomy" and "solidarity" as applied to Nabokov's work and offers new readings. It considers categories of narrative poetics as forms of cultural encoding that broaden and transform reader's modes of perception and sense-making. Micro-models active in certain contexts or in the works of certain authors function as mobile interfaces between individual sensibilities and complex cultural chrono- and spatio-types where time and space take on conceptual meaning.
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Embedded objects: The Asante goldweight, subjectivity formation, and social control
Janet Berry Hess
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 295-306
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.295
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.295
Laughter, control-systems, and production management
ANTERO HONKASALO
In: Semiotica 1990, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.151
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1990.78.1-2.151
The postmodern condition
Jean-François Lyotard
Culture University of Minnesota Press 0719014506 Available
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Other title information: a report on knowledge
Notes: Translation from the French by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, foreword by Frederic Jameson. Originally published in France as La Condition postmoderne: rappot sur le savoir (1979)
Annotation: Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are controlled in the Western world. Lyotard emphasized language; the world of postmodern knowledge can be represented as a game of language where speaking is participation in the game whose goal is the creation of new and ever-changing social linkages
Identifier: 0719014506
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Un exemple d'application de la sémiologie comme test du discours: Le Système de controle des métaux précieux et l’exercice du pouvoir politique
BERNARD DELOCHE
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.291
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.30.3-4.291
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
Status: Available