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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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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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Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real
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Other title information: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IV
Annotation: This book examines the concept of meaning and our general understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context. Starting from the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic and other forms of articulation, it considers the inherent philosophical consequences. Part I presents Klages’, Derrida’s, Von Hofmannsthal’s and Wittgenstein’s explorations of silence as a source of articulation and meaning. Debates about 20th century psychologism gave the attitude concept a pivotal role; it illustrates the importance of the discovery that a word is globally qualified as ‘the basic unit of language’. This is mirrored in the fact that we understand reality as a matter of particles and thus interpret the real as a component of an all-embracing ‘particle story’. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of legal semiotics related to the chapter’s theme: for instance on the meaning of a Judge’s ‘Saying for Law’, on law students training in varying attitudes or on the ties between law and language. Part II of the book illustrates our general understanding of reality as a matter of particles and partitioning, and examines texts that prove that particle thinking is basic for our meaning concept. It shows that physics, quantum theory, holism, and modern brain research focusing on human linguistic capabilities, confirm their ties to the particle story. In contrast, the book concludes that partitions and particles are neither a fact in the history of the cosmos nor a determinant of knowledge and the sciences, and that meaning is a process: a constellation rather than a fixation. This is manifest once one understands meaning as the result of continuously changing attitudes, which create our narratives on cosmos and creation. The book proposes a new key for meaning: a linguistic occurrence anchored in dimensions of human narrativity.
Identifier: 9783319281742
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Sociocultural crossings and borders
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Other title information: musical microhistories
Annotation: In the current global world the interaction between cultures penetrates into musical practices and discourses, radically affecting the sociocultural imagination and altering the established shapes of cultural territories. Yet the history of music demonstrates that the dynamics of cultural encounters and segregations has always been a key factor in the formation of individual and collective identities and in the understanding of other cultures. Cultural expansions and, conversely, the trajectories of displacement of cultural expression are to a varied extent affected by the political, economic, technological and other dimensions of dissemination of musical practices and traditions. In the modern age, the extramusical factors are of equal significance to textual (creation) and contextual (dissemination and reception) configurations of sociocultural interactions. The understanding of sociocultural interactions and borders plays an important role in the appropriation of the musical past and the revival of cultural memory.
Identifier: 9786098071290
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Biosemiotics
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Other title information: An examination into the signs of life and the life of signs
Notes: originally published in Danish as Biosemiotik. En afhandling om livets tegn og tegnenes liv (2005)
Annotation: Recent debates surrounding the teaching of biology divide participants into three camps based on how they explain the appearance of the human race: evolution, creationism, or intelligent design. Biosemiotics discovers an intriguing higher ground respecting those opposing theories by arguing that questions of meaning and experiential life can be integrated into the scientific study of nature. This groundbreaking book shows how the linguistic powers of humans imply that consciousness emerges in the evolutionary process and that life is based on sign action, not just molecular interaction. Biosemiotics will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nexus of linguistic possibility and biological reality.
Identifier: 9781859661691
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Wholeness and its remainders
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Other title information: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics
Annotation: The PhD thesis is a piece of research into the nature of theoretical constructions in various academic disciplines. Drawing on a close analysis of some theoretical works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, it distinguishes between totalizing and detotalizing ways of dealing with the phenomenal multiplicity which always confronts researchers when the construction of a theory is at stake. Theoretical procedures of totalization constitute phenomenal multiplicity into self-enclosed wholes and erase their remains. The thesis considers this kind of procedure from a temporal point of view, focusing on the theories of temporality elaborated by St. Augustine and Edmund Husserl and, from a systemic point of view, focusing on the theory of the (linguistic) system elaborated by Ferdinand de Saussure. Martin Heidegger's critique of the notion of 'presence' and Karl Marx's critique of the notion of 'value' are examined as problematizing the main instruments of temporal and systemic totalization respectively. Still, both Heidegger and Marx lingered within the logic of totality, simply opposing a more authentic wholeness to an inauthentic one. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard are, in contrast, considered in the thesis as representatives of detotalizing procedures which claim the impossibility of self-enclosed wholeness drawing on the inexhaustible remnants of any totalization and a general principle of constitutive openness. Particular attention is paid to those aspects of Yuri Lotman's later thought – such as the notions of explosion, boundary and dialogue – which can be understood as instruments for theoretical procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization of this sort. In the course of the thesis it becomes clear that, for political reasons, the commitment of this research is to detotalization. This commitment is illustrated in the last part of the work. There, the attempts at rethinking emancipative politics elaborated by three contemporary philosophers – Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière – are analyzed as theoretical procedures of political detotalization from both a systemic and a temporal point of view. Wholeness and its remains: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics The dissertation examines the nature of theoretical constructions in various disciplines. Based on a close analysis of some written works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, a distinction is made between totalizing and detotalizing approaches to dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of phenomena, which always plagues researchers and scientists in the creation of theories. Theoretical procedures of totalization reduce phenomenal diversity to self-contained and residue-free wholes.The dissertation analyses such procedures from both a temporal perspective (St. Augustine's and Edmund Husserl's theories of time) and a systemic perspective (Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of (linguistic) systems). Martin Heidegger's critique of the concept of 'presence/presentness' and Karl Marx's critique of the concept of 'value' undermine the theoretical tools of temporal and systemic totalization, respectively. But neither Heidegger nor Marx go beyond the logic of totality, they simply contrast authentic wholeness with false and inauthentic. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard, on the other hand, represent procedures of detotalization that highlight the impossibility of self-contained wholeness, relying on the principles of the inexhaustibility of the residues of totalization and deconstructive openness. The dissertation pays special attention to those aspects of Juri Lotman's later thought – the concepts of explosion, limit and dialogue – that may be useful in developing such procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization. The dissertation contributes to detotalization for political reasons, which are revealed in the final section of the work. It analyzes the attempt of contemporary philosophers Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière to rethink emancipatory politics as a procedure of political detotalization from both a systemic and temporal perspective.
Identifier: 9789949119349
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Cultural borders and creation of culture
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.359
Introducere in filosofia creatiei umane
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Annotation: The message of the present volume could be summed up by paraphrasing a well-known sentence by Andre Malraux: The 21st century will be creative or it won't be! Under the sign of this forecast, the author builds his plea for a philosophy of human creation, researching in an original, integrative way, the main dimensions of the creative endeavour. Who and for whom, how and with what result, when and for what purpose is it created? Here are the questions that are answered philosophically, in order to be able to shape that optimal situation of "creative communication" that the future expects from the present.
Identifier: 9733704156
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Les Universaux en musique
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Other title information: Actes du quatrième Congrès international sur la signification musicale
Annotation: L'opportunité et la valeur des textes rassemblés ici se reconnaissent à l'universalité des grands thèmes abordés, à leur diversité cohérente, à l'écho qu'ils donnent aux circonstances musicales mondiales actuelles. Les problèmes de la signification musicale sont permanents à travers toute l'histoire de la création et de l'interprétation, en ce que la musique ne se donnerait qu'à elle-même signification. Cependant, la présence, aussi évidente qu'apparemment insaisissable, d'une pensée musicale intime au compositeur, interne à l'œuvre, demeure par là même une fascination de tout auditeur, mais aussi la gageure presque utopique de toute analyse. Ces problèmes sollicitent donc une recherche et une lutte constantes pour tenter de reconnaître ou du moins d'approcher cette signification, à la lumière des démarches et clartés nouvelles. La signification musicale appelle d'urgence notre attention et se pose des problèmes nouveaux, bien au-delà de ceux des analyses traditionnelles. On saisira qu'une telle mutation des données ait appelé une vision nouvelle des Universaux qui règnent sur l'essence même d'un art organiquement, consubstantiellement uni à la perception pure et à la Connaissance. Ouvrage publié avec le concours du Centre national du livre et de Poly-Art international.
Identifier: 285944355X
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For a transcultural theory of iconic creation
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 287-290
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On a deep correspondence between sign-creation and symmetry in crystallography
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
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Notes: with an introduction by Maurice Sendak
Annotation: If you've ever read Oh, the Places You'll Go!, The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who, or any of the dozens of books written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel, you may think you're familiar with the work of the man who delighted millions as "Dr. Seuss." But the wildly imaginative creations collected in these pages show previously unseen dimensions of Geisel's art. These fabulous and whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never before shown to the public, will enchant and amaze you.
Identifier: 0679434488
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The Making of Avant-Garde
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Other title information: Tel Quel
Annotation: The present work will examine the constitution of Tel Quel's multipositionality (Boltanski 1973: 3-26), or funtion as a geometric locus, as the social creation of a symbolic good that combined all signs of intellectual radicality characteristic of the period. My aim is to analyze Tel Quel as a relatively heterogenous and changing object by exploring in a specific context its constitution, ascension, and decline as an intellectual avant-garde.
Identifier: 3110139529
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Compte rendu
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.341
Distant genetic relationship and Edward Sapir
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.273
Guest editorial. Present image, past text, post word: Educating the late modern citizen
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.195
Ideal speech situation vs. particular pragmatics of situation: The microcosm of psychoanalytic discourse
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.199
La sémiotique des gestes centrés sur le corps et leurs implications langagières dans le site medical
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.319
Professor Tarski, ‘The Liar’, and the true
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.301
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.u
SYMBOLS GROW: CREATION, COMPULSION, CHANGE
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1984, Volume 3, Issue 1
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The postmodern condition
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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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An American horror myth: Night of the Living Dead
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.38.1-2.1
An analytical outline of A. Schütz’s semiotics
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.38.1-2.77
Elements of symbolic history, Part III: Round of the Four Quarters
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.38.1-2.139
Hermeneutic and ethnomethodological formulations of conversational and textual talk
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.38.1-2.91
Hitler’s flag: A case study
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.38.1-2.127
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.38.1-2.191
Review article
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.38.1-2.169
Sign-creation and man-sign engineering
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.38.1-2.17
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.38.1-2.u
What is a door? Notes toward a semiotic guide to design
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.38.1-2.55
A GENERATIVE MODEL OF CONVERSATION
In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.17.1.21
COGNITIVE PROCESSES AND LINGUISTIC FORMS OF FACTORY WORKERS
In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.17.1.13
NONVERBAL EXPRESSIONS OF RITUALS IN JAPANESE SUMO
In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.17.1.1
THE DRY AND THE WET: A SEMIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CREATION AND FLOOD MYTHS
In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.17.1.35
THE TRANSFORMATION IN FREUD
In: Semiotica 1976, Issue 1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1976.17.1.69