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Women and Gift Economy
edited by Genevieve Vaughan
Social Inanna Publications and Education Inc. 9780973670974 Available
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Other title information: a radically different worldview is possible
Annotation: Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible is an attempt to respond to the need for deep and lasting social change in an epoch of dangerous crisis for all humans, cultures, and the planet. Featuring articles by well-known feminist activists and academics, this book points to ways to re-create the connections, which have been severed, between the gift economy, women, and the economies of Indigenous peoples, and to bring forward the gift paradigm as an approach to liberate us from the worldview of the market that is destroying life on the planet. Shifting to a gift paradigm can give us the radically different worldview which will make another, better, world possible.
Identifier: 9780973670974
Status: Available
Systems of musical sense
Fulvio Delli Pizzi | Michele Ignelzi | Paolo Rosato
- Dependent title
- essays on the analysis, semiotics, and hermeneutics of music
Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland | University of Helsinki | Dept. of Musicology 9525431061 Available
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Annotation: Systems of Musical Sense breathes new life into the field of music semiotics in its intuitive mix of logical rigor and hermeneutical interpretation and unique approach to paradigmatic analysis (Ruwet, Nattiez) and established theories of tinal music (Schoenberg). More significantly, te authors lay out an entirely new and innovative theory in their concept of musical homestasis, a phenomenon closely related to the fundamental law of physics which states that all things set in motion, organic and inorganic, tend to return to their initial point of rest. In tonal music, which also incorporates teology, this can take place at different levels, embodied by various parameters. The sensitive analyses here demonstrate ramifications of this axiom and cast new light on the structuring and effects de sens of tinal genres ranging in diversity from Bach chorales to Wagnerian opera. The culmination of mera tha a decade of research by this tea of widely published music scholars, the book is also a starting point: cognitivists, theorists, musicologists, and others can use the analytic methos "as is", develop it further, or transform it.The systems unvailed here need not be confined to tonal, "common-practice" art music. As universal axiom at least as dependable as the gestaltists "law of good continuation", the theory of homeostasis reveals new dimensions in earlier musical style and thos of more contemporary vintage.
Identifier: 9525431061
Status: Available
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Literature Abacus 9780349121086 Available
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Annotation: A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human – and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
Identifier: 9780349121086
Status: Available
The mind’s machines: The Turing machine, the Memex, and the personal computer
PETER SKAGESTAD
In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.111.3-4.217
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.111.3-4.217
Ecstatic Naturalism
Robert S Corrington
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- Signs of the world
Biology / Biosemiotics Indiana University Press 0253314410 Available
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Annotation: Semiotic theory, which has restricted its focus largely to human forms of signification, is transformed by Robert S. Corrington into a semiotics of nature itself. Corrington situates the divide between "nature naturing" and "nature natured" within the context of classical American pragmaticism and postmodern psychoanalysis. At the heart of this new metaphysics is an insistence that all signs participate in larger orders of meaning that are natural and religious. Meanings embodied in nature point beyond nature to the mystery inherent in positioned codes and signs
Identifier: 0253314410
Status: Available
Structuring the domain of human nonverbal behavior: A biological, Popperian perspective from the field of human movement studies
J. CHARTERIS; P. A. SCOTT
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.205
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.205
Codified continuity on the Shigisan Engi picture scrolls: Implications for a perceptual link between methods of structuring visual and auditory representation
JOAN KWEK
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.219
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.84.3-4.219
Compte rendu
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.121
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.121
Deconstructing Austin’s pragmatics: ‘An idle tea-table amusement’ (Russell) or an epistemological solution to the crisis of representation?
MARIKE FINLAY
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.7
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.7
On the possibility of defining truth in natural language: A polemic with Alfred Tarski
EUGENIUSZ GRODZIŃSKI
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.63
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.63
Peirce and Turing: Comparisons and conjectures
KENNETH LAINE KETNER
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.33
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.33
Porphyre: Le regard sémiotique
PIERRE SWIGGERS
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-6
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.1
Ritual or ritual? Dinnertime and Christmas among some ordinary American families
DAVID W. HAINES
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.75
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.75
The iconography of landscape
edited by Denis Cosgrove | Stephen Daniels
Space Cambridge University Press 0521324378 Available
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Annotation: The Iconography of Landscape draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image, 'a pictorial way of representing, structuring or symbolising surroundings'. By applying the art-historical method of iconography - interpreting levels of meaning in human artifacts - to landscapes on paper or canvas, in literary form or on its ground, its contributors show how landscape is an important mode of human signification, informed by, and itself informing, social, cultural and political issues. The range of examples is wide in terms of medium, period and place. It covers poetry and promotional literature, architectural design and urban ceremonial, maps and paintings. The historical periods discussed include sixteenth-century Italy, eighteenth-century England, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland and twentieth-century Canada. The book is introduced by the editors' discussion of the meanings of landscape and of the iconographic method in the context of contemporary theoretical and methodological debates on culture and society
Identifier: 0521324378
Status: Available
The organization of repair in the songs of gibbons
ELLIOTT H. HAIMOFF
In: Semiotica 1988, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.89
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1988.68.1-2.89
The manu-facturing of a language
WILLIAM WASHABAUGH
In: Semiotica 1980, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-38
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.29.1-2.1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1980.29.1-2.1