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OverviewWhere is semiotics now? As the promised science of the social life of signs in general, semiotics has not been good to its word. Although well-established institutionally today--through specialist journals, research centres, international conferences, professional associations and the like--semiotics now seems quaintly out of place in a world where text, culture and technology defy metadisciplinary, if not metaphysical, explanation. When the semiotician has finished explaining the music of Primal Scream, the textuality of an email message or the culture of the internet, most would believe there was still lots to be said. A generation ago, the radical humanities scholar turned to semiotics for the last word on news production, cinematic desire or the meaning of youth style. Today that last word (which is always the latest word too) is more likely to go to cultural studies, literary theory or postmodernism--all of which are in several senses 'beyond' semiotics even while remaining indebted to it. In addition, we can't so easily presume to separate notions of production and desire, say, or news and cinema, precisely because we can no longer say for sure where the differences lie between notions of text, culture and technology. Beyond Semiotics provides an approach to these three interdependent concepts of text, culture and technology, in order to show what semiotics had always had to marginalize, forget, or not see in the quest to professionalize itself. Meanwhile, outside the limitation of any discipline, the secular mysteries of text, culture and technology today continue to call for a response--not with the aim of laying bare the truth, but of opening up the sign. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Niall LucyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.230kg ISBN: 9780826449337ISBN 10: 0826449336 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 26 July 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsIntroduction: Chance Encounters 1. The Concept of Culture 2. A Short History of Semiotics 3. Total Eclipse of the Heart (Thinking Through Technology) 4. The Phake Fone: Crossing (Telecommunication) Lines 5. Situating Technologies:Radio Activity and the Nuclear Question 6. The Sound of a Dream 7. Catholic English 8. Derrivations: From Derrida to Empson 9. Gilligans Wake Coda: Interzones (Science Sentiment Cyberpunk)Reviews"""A timely, engaging and insightful book that will...be extremely well received by a wide readership in philosophy, comparative literature and cultural studies. [Lucy's] work combines an impressive command of some very abstract structuralist and post-structuralist theory and an equally impressive knowledge of the artefacts of contemporary culture with the ability to write in a lively and engaging way.""--John D. Caputo, David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University" A timely, engaging and insightful book that will be extremely well received by a wide readership in philosophy, comparative literature and cultural studies. [Lucy's] work combines an impressive command of some very abstract structuralist and post-structuralist theory and an equally impressive knowledge of the artefacts of contemporary culture with the ability to write in a lively and engaging way. John D. Caputo, David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University A timely, engaging and insightful book that will be extremely well received by a wide readership in philosophy, comparative literature and cultural studies. [Lucy's] work combines an impressive command of some very abstract structuralist and post-structuralist theory and an equally impressive knowledge of the artefacts of contemporary culture with the ability to write in a lively and engaging way. --John D. Caputo, David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University A timely, engaging and insightful book that will...be extremely well received by a wide readership in philosophy, comparative literature and cultural studies. [Lucy's] work combines an impressive command of some very abstract structuralist and post-structuralist theory and an equally impressive knowledge of the artefacts of contemporary culture with the ability to write in a lively and engaging way. --John D. Caputo, David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University Author InformationNiall Lucy is Senior Lecturer in English at Murdoch University, Australia. He is the author of Debating Derrida (Melbourne University Press, 1995), Postmodern Literary Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 1997) and editor of Postmodern Literary Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2000). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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